February 2018 - occi-wg - lists.ogf.org

Re: [occi-wg] A new paper related to OCCI Platfom
by Andy Edmonds 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Congrats! Andy Edmonds Æ Senior Researcher, ICCLab Institute of Information Technology Zürich University of Applied Sciences blog.zhaw.ch/icclab, keybase.io/dizz On 1 February 2018 at 14:04, Philippe Merle <philippe.merle(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "Model-Driven > Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with OCCI" was accepted > at the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services > Science (CLOSER'18). > > Title: Model-Driven Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with > OCCI > > Abstract: To tackle the cloud-provider lock-in, the Open Grid Forum > (OGF) is developing the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), a > standardized interface for managing any kind of cloud resources. Besides > the OCCI Core model, which defines the basic modeling elements for cloud > resources, the OGF also defines extensions that reflect the requirements > of different cloud service levels, such as IaaS and PaaS. However, so > far the OCCI PaaS extension is very coarse grained and lacks of > supporting use cases and implementations. Especially, it does not define > how the components of the application itself can be managed. In this > paper, we present a model-driven framework that extends the OCCI PaaS > extension and is able to use different configuration management tools to > manage the whole lifecycle of cloud applications. We demonstrate the > feasibility of the approach by presenting four different use cases and > prototypical implementations for three different configuration > management tools. > > The camera-ready version is available at > https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945/document. > > For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945. > > Best regards > Philippe Merle > > -- > Philippe Merle > Inria researcher > http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/ > > _______________________________________________ > occi-wg mailing list > occi-wg(a)ogf.org > https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg >

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Spam subscriber removal - don't be afraid to send examples of offending mails
by Sill, Alan 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

The spam bots have learned how to get past our account verification email layer. If you receive a spam response after posting to the list, let me know and I will remove and ban the offending account. I have deleted several from the subscriber list today. We do have several layers of protection on the OGF mailing lists, but as you know, it’s always an arms race, so rather than suffer in silence, let me or in general any email list owner know so that further measures can be taken. Alan

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A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform with OCCI
by Philippe Merle 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi, We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform" was accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering - IC2E 2018. Title: A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform Abstract: Today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leaders among cloud APIs. Although it was established only five years ago, GCP has gained notable expansion due to its suite of public cloud services that it based on a huge, solid infrastructure. GCP allows developers to use these services by accessing GCP RESTful API that is described through HTML pages on its website. However, the documentation of GCP API is written in natural language (English prose) and therefore shows several drawbacks, such as Informal Heterogeneous Documentation, Imprecise Types, Implicit Attribute Metadata, Hidden Links, Redundancy and Lack of Visual Support. To avoid confusion and misunderstandings, the cloud developers obviously need a precise specification of the knowledge and activities in GCP. Therefore, this paper introduces GCP MODEL, an inferred formal model-driven specification of GCP which describes without ambiguity the resources offered by GCP. GCP MODEL is conform to the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) metamodel and is implemented based on the open source model-driven Eclipse-based OCCIWARE tool chain. Thanks to our GCP MODEL, we offer corrections to the drawbacks we identified. The camera-ready version is available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659/document. For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659. Best regards Philippe Merle -- Philippe Merle Inria researcher http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/

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OCCI specification documents are inaccessible
by Philippe Merle 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi, OCCI specification documents listed at http://occi-wg.org/about/specification/ are inaccessible. The http://ogf.org site seems to be down. A+ Philippe Merle -- Philippe Merle Inria researcher http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/

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Re: [occi-wg] A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform with OCCI
by Andy Edmonds 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Congrats! Andy Edmonds Æ Senior Researcher, ICCLab Institute of Information Technology Zürich University of Applied Sciences blog.zhaw.ch/icclab, keybase.io/dizz On 1 February 2018 at 14:10, Philippe Merle <philippe.merle(a)inria.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "A Precise Model for > Google Cloud Platform" was accepted at the IEEE International Conference > on Cloud Engineering - IC2E 2018. > > Title: A Precise Model for Google Cloud Platform > > Abstract: Today, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leaders among > cloud APIs. Although it was established only five years ago, GCP has > gained notable expansion due to its suite of public cloud services that > it based on a huge, solid infrastructure. GCP allows developers to use > these services by accessing GCP RESTful API that is described through > HTML pages on its website. However, the documentation of GCP API is > written in natural language (English prose) and therefore shows several > drawbacks, such as Informal Heterogeneous Documentation, Imprecise > Types, Implicit Attribute Metadata, Hidden Links, Redundancy and Lack of > Visual Support. To avoid confusion and misunderstandings, the cloud > developers obviously need a precise specification of the knowledge and > activities in GCP. Therefore, this paper introduces GCP MODEL, an > inferred formal model-driven specification of GCP which describes > without ambiguity the resources offered by GCP. GCP MODEL is conform to > the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) metamodel and is implemented > based on the open source model-driven Eclipse-based OCCIWARE tool chain. > Thanks to our GCP MODEL, we offer corrections to the drawbacks we > identified. > > The camera-ready version is available at > https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659/document. > > For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01689659. > > Best regards > Philippe Merle > > -- > Philippe Merle > Inria researcher > http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/ > > _______________________________________________ > occi-wg mailing list > occi-wg(a)ogf.org > https://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/occi-wg >

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A new paper related to OCCI Platfom
by Philippe Merle 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hi, We are pleased to announce that our recent paper "Model-Driven Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with OCCI" was accepted at the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER'18). Title: Model-Driven Configuration Management of Cloud Applications with OCCI Abstract: To tackle the cloud-provider lock-in, the Open Grid Forum (OGF) is developing the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI), a standardized interface for managing any kind of cloud resources. Besides the OCCI Core model, which defines the basic modeling elements for cloud resources, the OGF also defines extensions that reflect the requirements of different cloud service levels, such as IaaS and PaaS. However, so far the OCCI PaaS extension is very coarse grained and lacks of supporting use cases and implementations. Especially, it does not define how the components of the application itself can be managed. In this paper, we present a model-driven framework that extends the OCCI PaaS extension and is able to use different configuration management tools to manage the whole lifecycle of cloud applications. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by presenting four different use cases and prototypical implementations for three different configuration management tools. The camera-ready version is available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945/document. For more information, have a look at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01678945. Best regards Philippe Merle -- Philippe Merle Inria researcher http://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~pmerle/

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