Using Ansible as Part of TOSCA Orchestrator
Valeriya Shvetcova, Oleg Borisenko, Maxim Polischuk · 2020
Cloud computing is used in many areas and by many specialists to ease application distribution and deployment. Cloud providers basically aim at providing resources varying from others. So it becomes very difficult to deploy multicloud applications or move to the cloud from own hardware clusters. TOSCA standard offers cloud resources model that unifies many cloud providers. In this paper we propose TOSCA orchestrator Clouni. Clouni takes TOSCA templates from the user and generates Ansible playbooks. Ansible is then used as a configuration tool for deployment automation. Clouni makes it easy for cloud users to deploy complex topologies.