Cloud Standards
Introduction
Boris Pařák, Zdeněk Šustr
Masaryk University CESNET
February 20, 2017
Standards?
► De jure and/or de facto Standards
Attempts to agree on a common framework and/or concepts
► Provide guidance in complex situations
► Improve over-all understandability of solutions
► Facilitate interoperability between components
► Possibility to avoid vendor lock-in for users
► Standardization bodies: ISO, IEEE, W3C, IETF, OGF, ...
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Categorization
High-level frameworks, guidelines, and practices
► ITIL - Information Technology Infrastructure Library
► FitSM - Light-weight IT Service Management
► ISO 27k - Information Security Guidelines and Practices
Communication protocols and resource descriptions
► OCCI - Open Cloud Computing Interface
► CIMI - Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
► CDMI - Cloud Data Management Interface
► TOSCA - Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
Low-level technical standards
► Wide variety of RFC, ITU-T, and IEEE standards
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Frameworks and Guidelines
(details in previous lectures)
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ITIL
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Portfolio Strategy
Financial Management
Service Portfolio Management
Release management
Design
(Product Management)
Continuity Manageme
Demand Management
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Transition
(Development)
Service Assets & Configuration Management
Change Management
Service Validation & Testing
Knowledge Management
Deployment Management
Operation
(Support)
Continual Improvement
(Quality)
Technical Management
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Service Reporting
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FitSM
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FitSM-0 Overview & vocabulary
FitSM-1 Requirements
FitSM-2 Objectives and activities
FitSM-4 Selected templates and samples
FitSM-5 Selected implementation guides
FitSM-3 Role model
FitSM-6 Maturity and capability assessment scheme
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ISO/IEC 27k
ISO/IEC 27000 ISO/IEC 27001 ISO/IEC 27002
Overview and vocabulary Information security management systems
Code of practice
ISO/IEC 27017
Code of practice for cloud services
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- Management -
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OCCI
Occi
Open Cbud Computing InterFace
► OGF's Open Cloud Computing Iterface
► Boundary-level interoperability and extensibility protocol
► Abstract nature, extensions for specific areas of functionality
► RESTful API over HTTP (plain or JSON rendering)
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CIMI
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► DMTF's Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface
► Specifically targeting laaS cloud APIs
► Other areas such as PaaS or SaaS out-of-scope
► RESTful API over HTTP (XML or JSON rendering)
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AWS
► Amazon's proprietary Elastic Cloud Compute interface
► Considered a de facto standard due to its popularity
► Other platforms offering reverse-engineered equivalents —)► sub-sets of features
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CDMI
SNIA
TM
► SNIA's Cloud Data Management Interface
► API to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements
► Oriented towards so-called object storage (not block or fs-based)
► Handling data and associated metadata
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AWS S3
► Amazon's proprietary Simple Storage Service interface
► Considered a de facto standard due to its popularity
► Other platforms offering reverse-engineered equivalents —)► sub-sets of features
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Service Orchestration
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TOSCA
OASIS 3
► OASIS' Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
► Enhancing the portability of cloud applications and services
► Describes service components, component relationships, operational behavior
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OpenStack HOT
Heat
► OpenStack's platform-specific Heat Orchestration Template
► Replacing the earlier CloudFormation-compatible format
► YAML-formatted resource templates, input parameters and outputs
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AWS Cloud Formation
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► Amazon's proprietary way to create and manage collections resources
► Considered a de facto standard due to its popularity
► Other platforms offering reverse-engineered equivalents —)► sub-sets of features
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- Virtual Appliances -
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Appliance Formats
Open Virtualization Format (OVF):
► DMTF's standard for appliance packaging (published as ISO 17203)
► Enables the authoring of portable virtual systems and the transport of virtual systems
► Supports various disk formats (see below)
Disk Format:
► Often specific for the given virtualization platform
► Open formats: cow, qcow, qcow2, raw, .. .
► Proprietary formats: vmdk, vdi, vhd, . . .
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- That's All Folks! -
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