A brief introduction to the objectives and features of the Unicorn project More information here: http://unicorn-project.eu

1. A Novel Framewok for Multi-
cloud Services Development, Or-
chestration, Deployment and
Continuous Management Foster-
ing Cloud Technologies Uptake
from Digital SMEs and Startups.
Development and design libraries for
secure and elastic – by design – mul-
ticloud services.
Continuous orchestration and auto-
matic optimization of portable and
dynamic cloud services running on
virtual instances or micro-execution
containers.
Elimination of the source code vul-
nerabilities, providing continuous
risk, cost and vulnerability assess-
ment.
Intuitive cloud/web plug-in that bun-
dles application code, third-party
libraries and UNICORN policies, al-
lowing users to search for required
OS images and libraries.
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Unicorn aims to simplify the
design, deployment and man-
agement of secure and elastic –
by design-multi-cloud Services.
UNICORN-PROJECT.EUUNICORN-PROJECT.EU
Project coordinator: Spiros Alexakis,
CAS Software AG, spiros.alexakis@cas.de
Scientific Lead: George Pallis,
University of Cyprus, gpallis@cs.ucy.ac.cy
Technical Lead: Panagiotis Gouvas,
Ubitech Ltd., pgouvas@ubitech.eu
Duration 01/01/2017 – 31/12/2019
Programme H2020-ICT-06-2016
UNICORN has received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme
under grant agreement no. 731846.
A DevOps-as-a-Service FrameworkA DevOps-as-a-Service Framework

2. Partners:
A N O V E L F R A M E W O R K F O R M U L T I - C L O U D S E R V I C E S
D E V E L O P M E N T , O R C H E S T R A T I O N , D E P L O Y M E N T A N D
C O N T I N U O U S M A N A G E M E N T F O S T E R I N G C L O U D
T E C H N O L O G I E S U P T A K E F R O M D I G I T A L S M E S / S T A R T U P S
Development and design libraries for
secure and elastic – by design – multi-
cloud services.
Continuous orchestration and automatic
optimization of portable and dynamic cloud
services running on virtual instances or
micro-execution containers.
Elimination of the source code
vulnerabilities, providing continuous risk,
cost and vulnerability assessment.
Intuitive cloud/web plug-in that bundles
application code, third-party libraries and
UNICORN policies, allowing users to
search for required OS images and
libraries
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U N I C O R N S I M P L I F I E S T H E D E S I G N , D E P L O Y M E N T A N D M A N A G E M E N T O F S E C U R E
A N D E L A S T I C – B Y D E S I G N - M U L T I - C L O U D S E R V I C E S
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Partners:
 To facilitate
the design and deployment of
Cloud applications and servic-
es by developing a security and
elasticity by design framework,
which is independent of the un-
derlying infrastructure or cloud
deployment environment.
 To improve
developers’ productivity by re-
ducing cloud application design
time via blueprints for security
and portability allowing devel-
opers to focus on application
core functionality.
 To provide
experimentation across a variety
of settings that enhance Quality
of Experience and contribute to
standardization and interopera-
bility
Objectives
UNICORN-PROJECT.EU
Developer
Administrator
Responsible for developing performant
and secured cloud application
Monitoring and managing running
cloud applications over the whole lifecycle
Cloud/App
Running app
under supervision
of monitoring
agents
Provide security, privacy,
monitoring and
elasticity libraries
Data
providing
Deploys Cloud
Applications,
Enforces Run-Time
Policies and Adapts
resources
at run-time
Suggestions for
management
decisions
Lifecycle
Management
Use source code
annotiations
Running as a Unicorn
Enabled Micro-Service“
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