Policy-Aware Provisioning of Cloud Applications
Uwe Breitenb, Tobias Binz, Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann, Matthias Josef Wieland · 2013
agement Planlets that allow the implementation of policy- aware provisioning logic in a reusable way independently from individual applications. The presented framework enables Cloud providers as well as application developers to specify security requirements for the provisioning without the need to have the deep technical management knowledge needed in other approaches. In addition, the concept allows security experts of different domains to work together in a collaborative way. We evaluate the approach in terms of performance, complexity, economics, feasibility, extensibility, and the implementation of a prototype. The remainder of this paper is structured as follows. In Section II, we explain fundamentals and motivate our approach by a scenario presented in Section III. In Section IV, we introduce Provisioning Policies. Section V describes the Management Framework that is extended by our approach, which is presented in Section VI. Section VII evaluates the approach and Section VIII reviews related work. We conclude this paper and give an outlook on future work in Section IX.