TOSCA Solves Big Problems in the Cloud and Beyond!
Paul Lipton, Derek Palma, Matt Rutkowski, Damian A. Tamburri · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2018
TOSCA, the “Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications” offers an OASISrecognized, open standard domain-specific language (DSL) that enables portability and automated management of applications, services, and resources regardless of underlying cloud platform, software defined environment, or infrastructure. With a growing, interoperable ecosystem of open source projects, solutions from leading cloud platform and service providers, and research, TOSCA empowers the definition and modeling of applications and their services (microservices or traditional services) across their entire lifecycle by describing their components, relationships, dependencies, requirements, and capabilities for orchestrating software in the context of associated operational policies. The authors introduce important TOSCA concepts and benefits in the context of commonly understood cloud use cases as a foundation to future discussions regarding advanced TOSCA concepts and additional breakthrough issues.