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TOSCA Lightning: An Integrated Toolchain for Transforming TOSCA Light into Production-Ready Deployment Technologies

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The OASIS standard TOSCA provides a portable means for specifying multi-service applications and automating their deployment. Despite TOSCA is widely used in research, it is currently not supported by the production-ready deployment technologies daily used by practitioners, hence resulting in a gap between the state-of-the-art in research and the state-of-practice in industry. To help bridging this gap, we identified TOSCA Light, a subset of TOSCA enabling the transformation of compliant deployment models to the vast majority of deployment technology-specific models used by practitioners nowadays. In this paper, we demonstrate TOSCA Lightning by two contributions. We (i) present an integrated toolchain for specifying multi-service applications with TOSCA Light and transforming them into different production-ready deployment technologies. Additionally, we (ii) demonstrate the toolchain’s effectiveness based on a third-party application and Kubernetes.

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Notes

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    https://github.com/UST-EDMM/tosca-lightning.

  2. 2.

    A Docker Compose file to start the TOSCA Lightning toolchain, a demonstration video, an in-depth quickstart guide, and ready-to-use TOSCA models are available in our GitHub repository: https://ust-edmm.github.io/tosca-lightning.

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    https://github.com/UST-EDMM/tosca-lightning#video.

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Work partially funded by projects RADON (EU, 825040), SustainLife (DFG, 379522012), and DECLware (Univ. of Pisa, PRA_2018_66).

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    Michael Wurster, Uwe Breitenbücher, Lukas Harzenetter & Frank Leymann

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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Wurster, M., Breitenbücher, U., Harzenetter, L., Leymann, F., Soldani, J. (2020). TOSCA Lightning: An Integrated Toolchain for Transforming TOSCA Light into Production-Ready Deployment Technologies. In: Herbaut, N., La Rosa, M. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 386. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58135-0_12

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