zeshunshi / cloudsstorm

An Application-driven Framework for Managing the Networked Infrastructure among Federated Clouds

What is CloudsStorm?

CloudsStorm is a framework for managing an application-defined infrastructure among public IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) Clouds. It enables the application to customize its underlying infrastructure at software development phase and dynamically control it at operation phase. To be specific, the advantages and features are as follows:

• Programmable: The underlying Cloud virtual infrastructure can be customized and programmed at software development phase to fit the application requirements. Furthermore, the connection topology with a private network can also be defined in advance.
• Controllable: CloudsStorm leverages the minimal function provided by Cloud and affords high-level controllability, including failure recovery, auto-scaling, etc. Therefore, the infrastructure can be easily controlled by the application at operation phase.
• Interoperable: CloudsStorm is able to manage virtual infrastructure among federated Clouds. Hence, this is not a vendor lock-in solution.
• Reusable: We propose "infrastructure code" to describe dynamic operations on the infrastructure, instead of only static infrastructure description or deployment plan. It is able to define and automate all processes including provisioning, deploying, executing and releasing. This code is reusable and the entire process is reproducible, as long as you have a budget to access the Cloud.

How does it work?

How about learning more?

• Documentation: https://cloudsstorm.github.io/
• Downlond release: https://github.com/CloudsStorm/Standalone/releases
• GitHub repository: https://github.com/zh9314/CloudsStorm
• We present a poster about CloudsStorm at ICT OPEN 2018 in the Netherlands (See Poster).

How about participating?

Questions, comments, some testing credential requests, bug reports, etc. can be directed to:

• my email: [email protected]
• issues on GitHub

Since this is an ongoing work. Patches and collaborations on the software are much appreciated.

Copyright and license

CloudsStorm is Copyright © Huan Zhou (SNE, University of Amsterdam) and contributors.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License. A copy of the license is included in file LICENSE.