Federated PaaSEasy creation and management of modular

applications in different clouds

Services & Applications area

March 2014

Problem

●A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is an environment to develop and deploy cloud applications on a specific cloud.

●Drawbacks of current PaaS:○For developers: vendor lock-in (each PaaS is tied to specific

technologies and services) ○For service providers: no standardization for interoperability

and services integration

Solution

●Abstraction layer at PaaS level to create and deploy modular applications easily: Federated PaaS

Application modules

Deployed modules

Available modules

Use cases

●Business Process as a Service (BPaaS)○Easy creation and deployment of business

processes based on WS-BPEL standard.

○Abstraction of management complexity.

●IoT cloud services○Internet of Things building blocks for easy

combination with cloud services.

○Development of cloud applications capable of interacting with the physical world.

Main features

●Easy modular design○Visual design of applications by dragging and dropping functional blocks

○Allows to focus on business logic and hides implementation issues

○Manual or automatic deployment in the most suitable cloud

○Easy to extend with custom functional blocks

●Easy management○Simple interface to deploy and manage applications created

○Applications can combine functional blocks deployed on different PaaS

○Migration of modules or complete applications among different PaaS

○Unified monitoring and accounting

Daniel A. Rodríguez Silva

darguez@gradiant.org

Services & Applications area

March 2014