Contrail final publishable summary report
Rapport de synthèse final du projet européen Contrail
Abstract
This document comprises the final report on the Integrated Project Contrail - “Open Computing Infrastructures
for Elastic Services". The project started in October 2010 and ended in January 2014. The Contrail
software stack provides for cloud administrators a platform to manage federated heterogeneous resources
offering customers advanced cloud services by selecting the most suitable cloud provider matching the application
requirements with performance and security guarantees. Contrail gives the illusion of using a
single cloud provider which can dynamically adapt to the customers’ needs. Cloud consumers can now use
a trustworthy platform to run their applications.
We have developed a comprehensive set of cloud services that can be exploited by means of the Contrail
software stack or as independent components. Contrail software components range at different levels
from PaaS to federation of IaaS clouds, and IaaS resources. The main Contrail services are: single sign
on and federated identity, automatic SLA negotiation and provider selection, dynamic authorisation and access
control, distributed application deployment under SLA constraints, reliable distributed storage, virtual
networks, monitoring and accounting, and PaaS runtime services.
The Contrail software has been experimented and validated with a wide range of applications, both
scientific and user oriented. One demonstrator was implemented, shown at different events and available on
the web. The project results are available as open source software. Some of the results are already exploited
by other projects and the consortium member organizations plan to exploit some of the results in follow-up
research projects and in future products.
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Domains
Operating Systems [cs.OS]
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