CYCLONE Unified Deployment and Management of Federated, Multi-Cloud Applications

TL;DR

The paper introduces CYCLONE, an integrated platform that unifies deployment and management of multi-cloud applications, addressing the lack of comprehensive solutions for complex multi-cloud environments.

Contribution

It presents the architecture of CYCLONE, combining existing tools into a holistic platform tailored for research organizations and SMEs managing multi-cloud applications.

Findings

Successful implementation in a bioinformatics use case

Addresses challenges in network and security infrastructure for Intercloud

Provides a unified management solution for multi-cloud environments

Abstract

Various Cloud layers have to work in concert in order to manage and deploy complex multi-cloud applications, executing sophisticated workflows for Cloud resource deployment, activation, adjustment, interaction, and monitoring. While there are ample solutions for managing individual Cloud aspects (e.g. network controllers, deployment tools, and application security software), there are no well-integrated suites for managing an entire multi cloud environment with multiple providers and deployment models. This paper presents the CYCLONE architecture that integrates a number of existing solutions to create an open, unified, holistic Cloud management platform for multi-cloud applications, tailored to the needs of research organizations and SMEs. It discusses major challenges in providing a network and security infrastructure for the Intercloud and concludes with the demonstration how the architecture is implemented in a real life bioinformatics use case.