Advances, Systems and Applications
 | Name | Organisation | Active | Description | References |
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 | 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. | |
 | 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. | |
 | 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. | |
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. |