The document provides an overview of the COLA project which aims to define a framework called MiCADO that supports optimal and secure deployment and run-time orchestration of cloud applications. The project has 14 partners from 6 European countries and will demonstrate the applicability of the MiCADO framework through large-scale pilots in SME and public sector use cases. It has a budget of 4.2 million Euros and runs from January 2017 to June 2019. The objectives are to design and test a set of services in the MiCADO framework, pilot and validate the technical and economic feasibility in case studies, and maximize impact through dissemination.

1. COLA – Cloud Orchestration at
the Level of Application
Introduction and project overview
Dr Tamas Kiss
Project Scientific Coordinator and Project Director
University of Westminster

2. Project objectives
Overall objective:
• Define a generic pluggable framework, called MiCADO (Microservices-based Cloud
Application-level Dynamic Orchestrator) that supports optimal and secure
deployment and run-time orchestration of cloud applications. The project will provide
a reference implementation of this framework by customising and extending existing,
typically open source solutions. Moreover, it will demonstrate via large scale close to
operational level SME and public sector demonstrators the applicability and impact
of the solution.
Detailed objectives:
• Design, prototype, test and demonstrate a set of services in a generic framework that cloud
application developers can utilise from their application source code
• Pilot, demonstrate and validate the technical feasibility of the MiCADO framework in SME and
public sector case-studies.
• Validate economic feasibility of the implemented use-cases.
• Define common and widely applicable application templates.
• Provide access to heterogeneous, federated and distributed cloud resources.
• Develop solutions to address security, reliability and trustworthiness.
• Maximise impact by focused dissemination and marketing campaign.

3. High level concept
Application 1 Application 2 Application N
Service 1 Service 2 Service 3 Service 4 Service 5
Baseline resource consumption
Variable resource consumption
Cloud services
Dynamic
demand
Manually
adjusted
supply
Resource requirements
To be replaced by
automatically
adjusted supply

4. Project details/facts
• Project started: 1st January 2017
• Project ends: 30th June 2019
• Overall project cost: 4.2 million Euros
• EC contribution: 3 million Euros
• Further contributions by Switzerland and the participating companies
• 14 project partners from 6 European countries
• 10 companies and 4 academic/research institutions

5. Project Partnership
• 14 partners from 6 EU countries
• 10 partners already worked together in the EU CloudSME project
(http://www.cloudsme-project.eu/)
• Experts in cloud computing/orchestration research:
• University of Westminster (UK)
• MTA SZTAKI (Hungary)
• Experts in cloud security:
• Swedish Institute of Computer Science (Sweden)
• BALABIT (Hungary)
• Cloud platform and resource providers
• CloudBroker (Switzerland)
• ScaleTools (Switzerland)
• CloudSigma (Switzerland)

6. Project Partnership
• SMEs and public sector organisations implementing use-cases:
• Use-case 1: Social media data analytics for public sector organisations
• Instrumentación y Componentes S.A. (Inycom) + Sociedad Aragonesa de Gestion Agroambiental SL
(SARGA) – Spain
• Use-case 2:Scalable Evacuation Planning Service
• Saker Solutions + Brunel University – UK
• Use-case 3: Scalable hosting, testing and automation for SMEs and public
sector organisations
• Outlandish LLP + The Audience Agency – UK
• Use-Case 4: Scalable simulation for manufacturing and engineering SMEs
• cloudSME UG – Germany

7. Project structure – work packages
WP3
Commercial
exploitation and
sustainability
WP1
Project
management
WP5
Application
definition
templates
WP6
Microservices
deployment and
execution layer
WP7
Security, privacy
and trust
WP2
Dissemination,
communication,
training and
standardisation
Business
models,
market
analysis
WP4
Cloud access
layer and testbed
infrastructure
WP8
SME and public
sector use-case
pilots
Infrastructure
support for
use-cases
Infrastructure
support for
framework
development
Framework
requirements
WP9
Ethical
issues

8. For more information please visit
www.project-cola.eu
twitter.com/projectCOLA
facebook.com/projectCOLA
Thank you!