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A Method to Automate Cloud Application Management Patterns

Authors:
Uwe Breitenbücher
Tobias Binz
Frank Leymann

Keywords: Application Management; Cloud Computing; Management Patterns; Management Automation

Abstract:
Management patterns are a well-established concept to document reusable solutions for recurring application management issues in a certain context. Their generic nature provides a powerful means to describe application management knowledge in an abstract fashion that can be refined for individual use cases manually. However, manual refinement of abstract management patterns for concrete applications prevents applying the concept of patterns efficiently to the domain of Cloud Computing, which requires a fast and immediate execution of arising management tasks. Thus, the application of management patterns must be automated to fulfill these requirements. In this paper, we present a method that guides the automation of Cloud Application Management Patterns using the Management Planlet Framework, which enables applying them fully automatically to individual running applications. We explain how existing management patterns can be implemented as Automated Management Patterns and show how these implementations can be tested afterwards to ensure their correctness. To validate the approach, we conduct a detailed case study on a real migration scenario.

Pages: 140 to 145

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: August 24, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4499

ISBN: 978-1-61208-354-4

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 24, 2014 to August 28, 2014