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resource's parameters and/or other resources. So the developer can set up a
complex trigger by composing some simple ones.
6Conluon
A set of tools for provisioning and management of Cloud resources can lever-
age the burden of a user that wants to deploy and execute his/her application
by using services at infrastructure level. In the framework of the FP7 mOSAIC
project we have designed and developed agents based services for provisioning,
management and monitoring of Cloud infrastructure. We presented here an API
client and some application tools that allow for the orchestration of such agents
based services according to a workflow to be adopted for the governance of Cloud
resources. The human intervention is still required for taking necessary decisions
about if and how reconfigure the infrastructure by using the Cloud elasticity or
looking for new proposals, eventually from different providers. Future work will
focus on the design and developing of autonomic applications to be automati-
cally triggered when critical conditions have been detected in order to provide
an autonomous and configurable closed-loop implementation of the proposed
workflow.
Acknowledgements.
This research is partially supported by FP7-ICT-2009-
5-256910 (mOSAIC) and by Cloud@Home PRIN project by MIUR.
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