Abstract-Multi-cloud computing has been proposed as a way to reduce vendor dependence, comply with location regulations, and optimize reliability, performance and costs. Meanwhile, microservice architectures are becoming increasingly popular in cloud computing as they promote decomposing applications into small services that can be independently deployed and scaled, thus optimizing resources usage. However, setting up a multi-cloud environment to deploy a microservices-based application is still a very complex and time consuming task. Each microservice may require different functionality (e.g. software platforms, databases, monitoring and scalability tools) and have different location and redundancy requirements. Selection of cloud providers should take into account the individual requirements of each service, as well as the global requirements of reliability and scalability. Moreover, cloud providers can be very heterogeneous and offer disparate functionality, thus hindering comparison. In this paper we propose an automated approach for the selection and configuration of cloud providers for multi-cloud microservices-based applications. Our approach uses a domain specific language to describe the application's multi-cloud requirements and we provide a systematic method for obtaining proper configurations that comply with the application's requirements and the cloud providers' constraints.
Automated Setup of Multi-Cloud Environments for Microservices Applications proposes an automated approach for the selection and configuration of cloud providers for microservices based applications. But it does not deal directly with applications deployment and does not consider costs and quality of service for optimizing the selection as these depend heavily on application usage REF .
Automated Setup of Multi-cloud Environments for Microservices Applications
2016 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
2016 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
Computer Science