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Configuration management as a multi-cloud enabler

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Bart Vanbrabant,

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CCB '14: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on CrossCloud Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2676662.2676672

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The deployment of applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments avoids vendor lock-in and reliance on a single cloud provider. The virtual compute infrastructures of IaaS provides enables enterprises to build large scale, geo-graphically distributed applications. Each IaaS provider offers virtual machines that can communicate with each other over a virtual network. However, each IaaS provider exposes subtle differences in the support for virtual machines, storage, networking, routing, etc. In this position paper we argue that configuration management is an enabler for multi-cloud environments by making abstraction of the above mentioned differences in the IaaS platforms, through configuration management. We illustrate this claim by using configuration management to address the challenges associated with multi-cloud environments.

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Ekparinya PGramoli VJourjon GZhu L(2017)Stratosphere: Dynamic IP Overlay Above the Clouds2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)10.1109/LCN.2017.75(583-586)Online publication date: Oct-2017
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DOI:10.1145/2676662

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Ekparinya PGramoli VJourjon GZhu L(2017)Stratosphere: Dynamic IP Overlay Above the Clouds2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)10.1109/LCN.2017.75(583-586)Online publication date: Oct-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2017.75
Khan AHintsch JSaake GTurowski K(2017)Variability management in Infrastructure as a Service: Scenarios in cloud deployment models2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC)10.1109/ICCNC.2017.7876219(724-728)Online publication date: Jan-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCNC.2017.7876219
Elkhatib Y(2015)Building Cloud Applications for Challenged NetworksEmbracing Global Computing in Emerging Economies10.1007/978-3-319-25043-4_1(1-10)Online publication date: 21-Nov-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25043-4_1

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