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CloudLaunch: Discover and Deploy Cloud Applications
Enis Afgan1, Andrew Lonie2, James Taylor1
1Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA.
Future Generations Computer Systems : FGCS
|August 9, 2021
Summary
CloudLaunch offers a unified platform for discovering and deploying applications across multiple cloud providers. This solution simplifies application accessibility and reduces vendor lock-in for developers and end users.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Software Engineering
Background:
- Cloud computing is widely used for software delivery.
- Deploying complex applications across diverse cloud platforms presents challenges, often leading to vendor lock-in.
- Current solutions are application-specific and lack coordination.
Purpose of the Study:
- To present CloudLaunch, a uniform platform for discovering and deploying applications across different cloud providers.
- To enable cloud-agnostic application availability with minimal effort for authors.
- To provide a consistent interface for end users to launch applications across various clouds.
Main Methods:
- Developed CloudLaunch as a catalog-based platform for arbitrary applications.
- Implemented customizable user interfaces and launch controls for each application.
- Ensured cloud-agnosticism to facilitate multi-cloud deployment.
- Designed a uniform interface for end-user application launching.
Main Results:
- CloudLaunch successfully enables the addition of diverse applications to a central catalog.
- Authors can achieve multi-cloud availability with reduced effort due to cloud-agnostic design.
- End users benefit from a simplified, uniform interface for launching applications across different cloud environments.
- Architectural details and example applications demonstrate key features.
Conclusions:
- CloudLaunch provides a unified and cloud-agnostic solution for application discovery and deployment.
- The platform simplifies the process for both application authors and end users.
- It effectively mitigates the issue of vendor lock-in in multi-cloud environments.
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