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BEYOND MULTI-CLOUD DEVELOPMENT
The value proposition of PIACERE includes the provision of an extensible modelling engine. It will enable users to visually describe all networks and nodes related to the deployment and operation lifecycle of complex applications. This engine is provided through...
FRAMEWORK ARCHITECTURE OF “PIACERE”
The architectural complexity of an IT infrastructure is comparable to that of a building. Up-to-date and detailed building plans are indispensable. To ensure their availability, evolution and performance, a specific architecture capable of harmonizing the work of the...
OPTIMIZING CLOUD CONTINUUM APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT IN PIACERE
Optimization is one of the most studied areas in the wide field of artificial intelligence. Hundreds of studies are published year after year focused on solving many diverse problems of this kind. In a nutshell, an optimization problem can be defined as the...
CANARY SANDBOX ENVIRONMENT (CSE)
Blog entry by Radosław Piliszek and Paweł Skrzypek from 7bulls.com Deployment of applications in cloud, multi cloud and, especially, more complex hybrid architectures incorporating edge and fog solutions, requires an efficient way to test and verify the...
xOpera – THE TOSCA ORCHESTRATOR
The xOpera project (GitHub) provides a set of tools for orchestration and automation of the cloud applications. The xOpera includes opera – a general-purpose OASIS TOSCA orchestrator - with a set of plugins and add-ons. The project also includes a tool, called...
CRITICAL MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURES USE CASE SPECIFICATION
Blog entry by Alfonso de la Fuente Ruiz, Ismael Torres and Christophe Joubert The specification of the Use Cases [ 1 ] for PIACERE is moving forward, helping to outline the main advantages and savings that the project is set to achieve. In...
IaC SOLUTIONS AND PERSPECTIVES
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) is an approach to automation of provisioning, configuration and deployment of infrastructure resources that is based on machine-readable files. These files are usually configuration files given as input to some software agent that...
THE SECOND GENERAL ASSEMPLY PAVES THE WAY FOR THE FIRST PROTOTYPES – PART 1
During the last week of March, the consortium has gathered together in the second General Assembly. The goals of this meeting were: Understand better the use cases: the current and future deployment topology, infrastructural elements needed now and, in the future, and...
PIACERE PRESENT AT THE FIRST SWForum CROSS-FERTILIZATION WORKSHOP
On 25th March 2021, Juncal Alonso, from TECNALIA presented the position paper titled: “Programming Trustworthy Infrastructure As Code in a Secure Framework”. The paper explains the motivation and challenges of PIACERE and briefly explains the...