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Table 1 List of CROFs under consideration for review purposes

From: Cloud resource orchestration in the multi-cloud landscape: a systematic review of existing frameworks

 

Name

Organisation

Active

Description

References

 

Heat

OpenStack

2010-present

Heat orchestrates composite cloud applications via templates, through both an OpenStack-native API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

[45]

 

Cloudify

GigaSpaces

2012-present

Cloudify is a TOSCA-based cloud orchestration framework which enables to model applications and services and automate their entire lifecycle.

[46]

 

Brooklyn

Apache

2012-present

Brooklyn is a cloud orchestration framework implementing OASIS CAMP that allows to deploy and manage applications via declarative blueprints.

[47]

 

Stratos

Apache

2013-2017

Stratos is a polyglot PaaS framework that helps model and run composite and scalable applications on all major cloud infrastructures.

[48]

 

Alien4Cloud

FastConnect

2014-present

Alien4Cloud is a web-based platform providing means to model, deploy and manage TOSCA-based applications via a TOSCA runtime engine.

[49]

 

Terraform

HashiCorp

2014-present

Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool that enables to provision, and manage infrastructures using a high-level configuration language.

[50]

Commercial

CloudFormation

AWS

2011-present

CloudFormation is an infrastructure-as-code tool that helps model and set up AWS infrastructure resources by means of a JSON encoded template.

[51]

 

Cloudiator

University of Ulm

2015-2017

Cloudiator is a cross-cloud orchestration tool that allows to describe an application once and deploy it on different public and private cloud providers.

[52, 53]

 

Roboconf

University of Grenoble Alpes

2014-2017

Roboconf is both a platform and a framework tool to deploy and manage elastic cloud applications using automatic reactions and reconfigurations.

[54]

 

INDIGO

INDIGO consortium

2015-2017

INDIGO is a data and computing platform targeted at scientific communities, which optimises application execution on cloud and grid infrastructures.

[55, 56]

 

MiCADO

COLA consortium

2017-2019

MiCADO is a highly customisable multi-cloud orchestration and auto-scaling framework for Docker containers, orchestrated by Kubernetes.

[57]

 

MODAClouds

MODAClouds consortium

2012-2015

MODAClouds is a toolbox and a runtime platform for the design and automatic deployment of applications on multiple clouds with guaranteed QoS.

[58, 59]

Academic

SeaClouds

SeaClouds consortium

2013-2016

SeaClouds is a framework that enables seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications over multiple heterogeneous clouds.

[60, 61]