Containers as a lightweight technology to virtualise applications have recently been
successful, particularly to manage applications in the cloud. Often, the management of …

Virtualization technology is the underlying element of cloud computing. Traditionally, cloud
computing has employed virtual machines to distribute available resources and provide …

The cloud computing landscape is rapidly expanding and growing in complexity. It has
witnessed the emergence of Cloud Computing as a widely adopted model for efficiently …

In April 2018, under the auspices of the POR-FESR 2014-2020 program of Italian Piedmont
Region, the Turin's Centre on High-Performance Computing for Artificial Intelligence …

Reference architectures (RAs) are successfully used to represent families of concrete
software architectures in several domains such as automotive, banking, and the Internet of …

The automation of application deployment is critical because manually deploying
applications is timeconsuming, tedious, and error-prone. Several deployment automation …

As part of the DevOps tactics, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) provides the ability to create,
configure, and manage complex infrastructures by means of executable code. Writing IaC …

Enterprise IT is currently facing the challenge of coordinating the management of complex,
multicomponent applications across heterogeneous cloud platforms. Containers and …

Cloud services and cloud infrastructures become increasingly complex and dynamic: many
different physical and virtual machines, applications and their components interact and all of …

The development of applications independent of the cloud providers where they are going to
be deployed is still an open issue. In fact, cloud agnostic software development presents …