Distributed software built from components has become a mainstay of service-oriented
applications, which frequently undergo reconfigurations to adapt to changes in their …

Cloud computing has radically changed the way organizations operate their Software by
allowing them to achieve high availability of services at affordable cost. Containerized …

How to flexibly manage complex applications across heterogeneous cloud platforms is one
of the main concerns in today's IT enterprise. The OASIS standard TOSCA (Topology and …

Microservices is an emerging paradigm for the development of distributed systems that,
originating from Service-Oriented Architecture, focuses on the small dimension, the loose …

For large-scale distributed systems that need to adapt to a changing environment,
conducting a reconfiguration is a challenging task. In particular, efficient reconfigurations …

Modern cloud applications consist of software components deployed on multiple virtual
machines. Deploying such applications is error prone and requires detailed system …

Abstract We present Aeolus Blender (Blender in the following), a software product for the
automatic deployment and configuration of complex service-based, distributed software …

Microservices are highly modular and scalable Service Oriented Architectures. They
underpin automated deployment practices like Continuous Deployment and Autoscaling. In …

Loosely-coupled distributed systems organized as collections of so-called cloud-native
microservices are able to adapt to traffic in very fine-grained and flexible ways. For this …

In the context of Edge Computing or Cyber-Physical Systems, cross-functional, and cross-
geographical DevOps teams are in charge of automating deployments, configuration, and …