Architectural Tactics Support in Cloud Computing Providers: The Jelastic Case
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Jaime Chavarriaga, Carlos Noguera, Rubby Casallas, Viviane Jonckers Architectural Tactics support in cloud computing providers: the Jelastic Case. QoSA 2014. pp 13-22. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2602576.2602580
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Architectural Tactics Support in Cloud Computing Providers: The Jelastic Case
- 1. Architectural Tactics Support in Cloud Computing Providers: The Jelastic Case Jaime Chavarriaga, jchavarr@vub.ac.be Carlos Noguera, cnogera@vub.ac.be Rubby Casallas, rcasalla@uniandes.edu.o Viviane Jonckers, vejoncke@vub.ac.be
- 2. PaaS providers PaaS = Platform as a Service No need to install infrastructure Options for: • Scalability • Elasticity • Fault Tolerance
- 3. From the architect’s point of view… Before/During deployment, the architect must configure the PaaS to achieve the intended QAs
- 4. e.g. Cloud Platform Which Environments (servers) to use? How many servers ? Which options configure in the environments?
- 5. Our Contribution • To provide better abstractions to support architects configuring PaaS applications based on: – Quality Attributes (QAs) • Architectural tactics –PaaS Configuration Options
- 6. Our Approach • Our solution is based on: – Feature models to represent variability in: • Architectural Tactics related to QAs, • Jelastic configuration options – Feature Solution Graphs to represent: • Relationships between these feature models
- 7. Feature Models r a b f2f1 f3 f4 f5 Or Group Alternative Group Optional Feature Mandatory Feature
- 8. Configuration r a b f2f1 f3 f4 f5 Or Group Alternative Group Optional Feature Mandatory Feature C1 = { r, a, f1, b, f3 } valid
- 9. Configuration r a b f2f1 f3 f4 f5 Or Group Alternative Group Optional Feature Mandatory Feature C2 = { r, b, f3 } invalid
- 10. FM for Architectural Tactics
- 11. FM for Architectural Tactics 6 Quality Attributes 79 Architectural Tactics Bass et al. Software Architecture in Practice Addison-Wesley 2014
- 12. FM for Jelastic Cloud Computing
- 13. Modeling how to implement architectural tactics using cloud platform options
- 14. Feature Solution Graph (FS-Graphs) forces prohibits suggests
- 15. Feature Solution Graph (FS-Graphs) forces prohibits suggests
- 16. Feature Solution Graph (FS-Graphs) forces prohibits suggests
- 18. Jelastic …Session Server App Server Tomcat Glassfish Jetty HA requires Tactics Performance Availability… forces TPC LB forces prohibits Passive Redundancy Active Redundancy Reduce Overhead HTTP LB Load Balancer Relating architectural tactics to configuration options
- 19. Helping software architects to configure a cloud platform based on architectural tactics
- 20. Jelastic …Session Server App Server Tomcat Glassfish Jetty HA requires Tactics Performance Availability… forces TPC LB forces prohibits Passive Redundancy Active Redundancy Reduce Overhead HTTP LB Load Balancer Relating architectural tactics to configuration options
- 21. Jelastic …Session Server App Server Tomcat Glassfish Jetty HA requires Tactics Performance Availability… forces TPC LB forces prohibits Passive Redundancy Active Redundancy Reduce Overhead HTTP LB Load Balancer Relating architectural tactics to configuration options
- 22. Relating architectural tactics to configuration options Jelastic …Session Server App Server Tomcat Glassfish Jetty HA requires Tactics Performance Availability… forces TPC LB forces prohibits Passive Redundancy Active Redundancy Reduce Overhead HTTP LB Load Balancer
- 23. Case Study: The Jelastic Platform
- 24. Relating architectural tactics to configuration options 24
- 25. Possible Combination of Tactics Availability Performance Security Testability Availability 289 277,151 54,527 867 Performance 959 91,105 2.877 Security 95 285 Testability 3
- 26. Possible Combination of Tactics Availability Performance Security Testability Availability 289 25 valid 264 confl 277,151 8 valid 277,143 confl 54,527 4,487 valid 50,040 confl 867 75 valid 792 confl Performance 959 31 valid 928 confl 91,105 2,945 valid 88,160 confl 2.877 93 valid 2784 confl Security 95 95 valid 0 confl 285 285 valid 0 confl Testability 3 3 valid 0 confl
- 27. detected Conflicts Availability Performance Security Testability Availability 91.3% 99.9% 91.7% 91.3% Performance 96.7% 96.7% 96.7% Security 0% 0% Testability 0%
- 28. Conclusions • We have used FM to model variability in architectural tactics and cloud platform configuration, and FS-Graphs to model the relationships between them. • We use these models to help software architects to configure a PaaS based on QAs and detect conflicts that may result. • The same approach can be applied to other cloud computing provider. – The corresponding models should be defined using the knowledge of each specific PaaS provider.
- 29. Questions ? Jaime Chavarriaga, jchavarr@vub.ac.be Carlos Noguera, cnogera@vub.ac.be Rubby Casallas, rcasalla@uniandes.edu.o Viviane Jonckers, vejoncke@vub.ac.be
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- I am Doing a Phd research in Uniandes Bogota and VUB, Brussels In the context of variability management Today I will present an application of our ideas in the context of … First at all, I will explain the problem of using Paas Providers from the point of view of a software architects In the context of cloud applications, architects may use…
- PaaS providers offer Platform as a Service in cloud computing enviromnents. A software architects willing to deploy an application may use the execution environments and applications servers offered by a Paas providers such as Google App Engine, Jelastic or providers offering the GRAILS platform. With these providers, Software architects do not need to install the infrastructure software. They only has to deploy the application into preinstalled environments. In addition, they can use additional options for automatic scalability, elasticity and fault tolerance.
- From the architects’ point of view, the architect must configure the PaaS environment to achieve the intended Quality attributes for an application. For instance, if the application must achieve high availability or high performance, the architect must select the proper execution environment, probably using options for multiple servers, clustering or distributed caching systems.
- Although the configuration must respond to QAs, the PaaS is configured throught options of the infrastructure For instance, in Jelastic there are options to configure which brand of application server to use, how many servers to use, and which options include with these servers. This may result very complex for the architect used to deal with QAs and not with infrastructure options and configuration.
- Then, our contribution is focused on helping software architects to configure PaaS platforms based on QAs. In concrete we are interested on better abstractions to support software software architects configuring PaaS platform based on Quality Attributes. Basically abstractions that relate Quality Attributes with the architectural tactics that help to achieve these attributes and the Jelastic configuration that implement these architectural tactics. Now i will present, how we build the solution and some of the results we found.
- Feature Models have been used to represent variability in a domain. For instance, to represent which options or configuration elements can be included in an application. Our approach is based on feature models to represent alternatives about the architectural tactics that can be used to achieve a Quality Attribute and the Diverse options to configure Jelastic. We are proposing the use of Feature-Solution graphs to relate the architectural tactics to the jelastic configuration options. We use these graphs to represent how an architectural tactic can be implemented using that configuration options.
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- Numero de opciones Note they are features…
- From 2,147,483,647 combinations of tactics only 210,862,079 results in valid configurations in Jelastic.
- Future work: Recommenders for cloud configuration in Jelastic and other platforms - Tool support for FS-Graphs