TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) is an open standard that enhances application portability and management across various cloud providers, thereby promoting customer choice and reducing costs. It enables a flexible and adaptive ecosystem where applications can be easily moved between different cloud environments while ensuring reliability and compliance. Supported by a growing number of industry leaders, TOSCA facilitates automated application deployment and orchestration, making it integral for businesses in adapting to ever-changing cloud technology demands.

1. TOSCA
An Open Standard for Business Application Agility and Portability in the Cloud
Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Standard
Derek Palma
President/CTO/Founder
Vnomic
Matt Rutkowski
Senior Engineer, Master Inventor
IBM Open Technologies
Paul Lipton
VP, Industry Standards and Open Source
CA Technologies
Richard Probst
VP, Infrastructure Technology Strategy
SAP

2. AGENDA
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What is TOSCA?
•How it addresses critical Cloud challenges
Growing TOSCA eco-system
Dev-Ops enabled by TOSCA
Flexible and Portable TOSCA Applications
•Empowering business choice in Cloud

3. •TOSCA is an important new open cloud standard, that is enabling a unique eco-system, supported by a large and growing number of international industry leaders…
What is TOSCA?
TOSCA defines the interoperable description of applications; including their components, relationships, dependencies, requirements, and capabilities….
…thereby enabling portability and automated management across cloud providers regardless of underlying platform or infrastructure thus expanding customer choice, improving reliability, and reducing cost and time-to-value.
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Speed and accuracy moving apps to Cloud
TOSCA addresses
critical cloud challenges
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Agility adapting to change
Consumer Choice
of Cloud vendor and technology
(Business and IT)

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TOSCA Application
Model
Web Server
Tier
Web Server
Web App
PHP Script Module
Database Server Tier
DB Server
Database
These concepts lead to an application-centric, holistic, unified model
•Reusable models extend investments by making it easy to compose more valuable and complex apps from existing apps
•Models can be validated by automation to ensure app-aware, policy-aligned configuration, deployment and operational semantics
Containment and Connectivity concepts support Composition & Reuse
The collective knowledge of application and infrastructure experts are captured as reusable TOSCA models
Containment
Connectivity

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TOSCA enables an eco-system where service providers can Compete and Differentiate to add value to Your Applications
Each cloud provider competes by offering their “best fit” of unique capabilities,
features, and services that match the application’s requirements
Cloud Provider C
Cloud Provider B
TOSCA supports automated matching of application requirements to provider capabilities
Portable
Choice of Provider that
“best fits” your application
•Avoid the “lowest-common denominator” approach…
Choice
Best Fit
TOSCA App
•TOSCA Apps can be designed to be portable to any cloud (including hybrid) that meets the application’s requirements
Cloud Provider A

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Design
Tools
Service
Marketplaces
Cloud
Managers
TOSCA eco-system vision successfully demonstrated @Eurocloud
Participating
Companies:
Marketplace
Telco Cloud Solution
FlexFrame Supported Clouds
Orchestrator
Service Designer Workload Deployer Cloud Monitoring
Cloud
Marketplace
Cloud Management
and Automation
Cloud
Orchestrator
Cloud
optimization
tools
multiple marketplaces (conceptual)
OASIS Sponsored Multi-Company Interop. Demos of
SugarCRM, SAP CRM and SAP ERP application portability
Different partner cloud orchestration engines & tools seamlessly modeling,
deploying, and running the same TOSCA service templates on different clouds.

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TOSCA Templates Agnostic to Cloud Infrastructure Changes
TOSCA enables holistic application lifecycle automation while
ensuring integrity, security and compliance
Architects
Model services, policies & requirements
Development
Teams
Develop, unit test scripts, plans & artifacts for planned releases, patches, fixes
QA Teams
Build & Test releases, updates & configurations
Operations
Deploy, manage
& monitor application lifecycle
Cloud Provider A
Cloud Provider C
Cloud Provider B
TOSCA
Template
Cloud Application Lifecycle with TOSCA
TOSCA
Template
TOSCA
Template
TOSCA
Template
TOSCA
Template
Infrastructure Changes
Hot Packs
Strategic Requests
Operational Requests
External
Influences
Business
Conditions
TOSCA templates communicate and drive app-centric Dev-Ops and continuous delivery

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TOSCA
Portable
Cloud
Application
TOSCA reduces application complexity
Enabling TOSCA applications to be portable to different infrastructures
Application Requirements
TOSCA
Orchestration
TOSCA Service Template
Storage
Compute1
DB
Compute2
App
Network
Scaling
Policy
Ring
Network
KVM
KVM
KVM
KVM
KVM
KVM
Cloud Provider C
Cloud Provider B
PowerVM
SSD
PowerVM
SSD
PowerVM
SSD
PowerVM
SSD
PowerVM
PowerVM
RDMA
Network
Cloud Provider A
10 Gb
Network
X86 VM
HDD
X86 VM
HDD
X86 VM
Infrastructure Capabilities
by expressing
application requirements…
independently from
cloud provider
Capabilities…
& Optimization
Automatic Matching

10. TOSCA enables flexible movement between different clouds
Application / Service
Initial Deployment
TOSCA Cloud Service Templates enable …
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TOSCA Template
Cloud Provider A
Cloud Provider C
Freedom to respond to changes in business needs and regulatory demands
WebApp
Database
•Cloud providers to match application requirements while still offering unique solutions
•Automated application movement between Clouds without typical migration pains

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TOSCA eco-system is rapidly growing with support from industry leaders TOSCA Version 1.0 Specification approved as an OASIS Standard (Nov 2013) Government and Corporate Awareness:
–OASIS: 600+ member organizations. 5000+ participants spanning 65+ countries
–TOSCA TC: 150+ members, 35+ companies & orgs.
–International Standards & Research: ETSI NFV liaison, EU FP7, etc.
–Industry Analysts: Forrester names TOSCA as a top four cloud open standard (Mar 2014) Multi-company Interoperability Demonstrated:
–EuroCloud 2013 (Oct 2013): IBM, SAP, Fujitsu, Huawei, HP, Vnomic, Zenoss and others
–Open Data Center Alliance: TOSCA Application Portability in the Enterprise Cloud PoC (Jan 2014) Open Source:
–OpenStack, Eclipse, getcloudify.org, celar
Member Companies
Open Source Projects
… and open source partners

12. Find out how TOSCA can empower your Cloud business
•In implementing your Cloud strategy TOSCA enables unique solutions to your key challenges
–Speed and accuracy moving apps to Cloud
–Agility adapting to change - Business and IT
–Choice of Cloud vendor and technology
•Talk to your vendors and platform providers about their TOSCA support
TOSCA enables application portability and automated management across cloud providers regardless of underlying platform or infrastructure thus expanding customer choice, improving reliability, and reducing cost and time-to-value.
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13. •TOSCA Technical Committee Public Page
–https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca
•TOSCA v1.0 Specification
–http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA/v1.0/TOSCA-v1.0.pdf
•TOSCA v1.0 Primer
–http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/tosca-primer/v1.0/tosca-primer-v1.0.pdf
•TOSCA Simple Profile in YAML v1.0 in early, committee-approved draft form
–http://docs.oasis-open.org/tosca/TOSCA-Simple-Profile-YAML/v1.0/TOSCA- Simple-Profile-YAML-v1.0.pdf
•OASIS YouTube Channel
–https://www.youtube.com/user/OASISopen
•Contact the Technical Committee Co-Chairs:
–Paul Lipton, paul.lipton@ca.com
–Simon Moser, smoser@de.ibm.com
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TOSCA Resources – Learn More

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OASIS TOSCA TC Members showcasing their support of the “TOSCA Ecosystem”
Developed by the
TOSCA Marketing & Education WG

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An Open Standard for Business Application Agility and Portability in the Cloud

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