MiCADO – Towards a microservice-based cloud application-level dynamic orchestrator
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Distributed and Parallel Computing, Scientific Computing and Simulation
- Keywords
- application-level orchestration, Cloud applications, microservices-based architectures, container technologies
- Copyright
- © 2016 Visti et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. MiCADO – Towards a microservice-based cloud application-level dynamic orchestrator. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2536v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2536v1
Abstract
In order to satisfy end-user requirements, many scientific and commercial applications require access to dynamically adjustable infrastructure resources. Cloud computing has the potential to provide these dynamic capabilities. However, utilising these capabilities from application code is not trivial and requires application developers to understand low-level technical details of clouds. This paper investigates how a generic framework can be developed that supports the dynamic orchestration of cloud applications both at deployment and at run-time. The advantages and challenges of designing such framework based on microservices is analysed, and a generic framework, called MiCADO – (Microservices-based Cloud Application-level Dynamic Orchestrator) is proposed. A first prototype implementation of MiCADO to support data intensive commercial web applications is also presented.
Author Comment
This is a submission to PeerJ Computer Science for review.