Enabling Collaborative Development in an Open Stack Testbed: The Cloud Wave Use Case

Abstract

The Cloud Wave project embodies a challenging set of goals, including the development of software components that have to be integrated into a single multi-layer Cloud stack based on Open Stack, while cutting across the Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Software-as-a-Service levels by targeting layer-spanning issues such as Feedback-Driven Development and Coordinated Adaptation. A DevOps-ready test bed environment should allow project partners to exert full control over deployed compo entry and collaborate on development. Goals include providing a flexible infrastructure capable of emulating several multi-node Cloud environments, as well as enabling the automatic deployment of Cloud Wave artifacts into such environment in order to simplify integration activities. This paper takes a snapshot of the current situation with regards to the design and implementation of such a setup, trying to gain relevant insight out of this effort.