Demo abstract: RPiaaS: A raspberry pi testbed for validation of cloud resource management strategies
Pieter‐Jan Maenhaut, Bruno Volckaert, Veerle Ongenae, Filip De Turck · 2017
With cloud computing, efficient resource management is of great importance, as it has a direct impact on the scalability of the cloud application, and can result in significant energy and cost reductions. In recent years, a lot of research has been done regarding the management of cloud resources, resulting in multiple novel resource allocation strategies. Validation of these strategies however is often only based on simulations, as large experiments using real cloud infrastructure are both expensive and time-consuming. In this demo we present RPiaaS, a low-cost and energy-efficient cloud testbed built using Raspberry Pi's. The testbed provides an easy-to-use environment for the initial evaluation of novel cloud resource management strategies, and is designed to facilitate the step from simulations towards experimental evaluations on larger cloud testbeds.