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PaaS Manager: A Platform-as-a-Service Aggregation Framework

David Cunha¹, Pedro Neves¹ and Pedro Sousa²

1. Portugal Telecom Inovacao, SA
   3810-106 Aveiro, Portugal
   davidgoncalvescunha@gmail.com, pedro-m-neves@ptinovacao.pt
2. Centro ALGORITMI / Department of Informatics
   University of Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
   pns@di.uminho.pt

Abstract

The advent of Cloud Computing opened new opportunities in several areas, namely in the application development processes. As consequence, nowadays, PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) service model allows simpler and flexible deployment strategies of applications, avoiding the need for dedicated networks, servers, storage, and other services. Within this context, several PaaS providers exist in the market, but each one having specific characteristics, proprietary technologies and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Based on such assumptions, this work addresses the challenge of devising a PaaS aggregation solution with the objective of unifying the information and management processes of applications created in PaaS environments. The proposed solution, denominated as PaaS Manager, take the form of a PaaS API aggregator aiming to struggle the existing lock-in in the PaaS market. In this perspective, this paper describes the specification, development and test of the proposed PaaS Manager solution. As result of this framework, end-users are able to select the most appropriate PaaS platform for an application, interacting with any supported vendor through a unique deployment and management interface.

Key words

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Interoperability, PaaS APIs

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS130828028C

Publication information

Volume 11, Issue 4 (October 2014)
Special Issue on Advances in Systems, Modeling, Languages and Agents
Year of Publication: 2014
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Cunha, D., Neves, P., Sousa, P.: PaaS Manager: A Platform-as-a-Service Aggregation Framework. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1209–1228. (2014), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS130828028C