Towards a Cloud Service Broker for the Meta-Cloud

Carlos Gonçalves; David Cunha; Pedro Neves; Pedro Sousa; João Paulo Barraca; Diogo Gomes

Carlos Gonçalves Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro
David Cunha Portugal Telecom Inovaç˜ao, Centro ALGORITMI / Department of Informatics, University of Minho
Pedro Neves Portugal Telecom Inovaç˜ao, SA
Pedro Sousa Centro ALGORITMI / Department of Informatics, University of Minho
João Paulo Barraca Instituto de Telecomunicaç˜oes, University of Aveiro
Diogo Gomes Instituto de Telecomunicaç˜oes, University of Aveiro

Resumo

Cloud Computing provides computing resources, middleware and (web-based) software on an on-demand basis. This model helps customers saving costs and allows access to the latest technology. With the exponential growth of IT companies offering cloud services, deploying applications to the cloud has become a complex task to engage. Almost each and every provider has its own terminology, providers do not share the same (or even similar) API, and costs of operation greatly diverge according to provider, region or availability.This paper propounds a Cloud Service Broker (CSB), anddescribes an early prototype, where users are, intelligently and autonomously, aid to deploy, manage, monitor and migrate their applications in a cloud of clouds. A single API is required to orchestrate the whole process in tandem with two truly decoupled managers: a Platform as a Service Manager (PaaS Manager) and an Infrastructure as Service Manager (Iaas Manager). Users also interact with the CSB through a Web portal and a command-line interface.