Déploiement d’applications patrimoniales en environnements de type informatique dans le nuage

Deploying legacy applications in cloud computing environments

• Auteur / Autrice : Xavier Etchevers
• Direction : Noël de Palma, Thierry Coupaye
• Type : Thèse de doctorat
• Discipline(s) : Informatique
• Date : Soutenance le 12/12/2012
• Etablissement(s) : Grenoble
• Ecole(s) doctorale(s) : École doctorale Mathématiques, sciences et technologies de l'information, informatique (Grenoble ; 1995-....)
• Partenaire(s) de recherche : Laboratoire : LIG - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

Mots clés

Mots clés libres

Informatique dans le nuage

Systèmes répartis

Applications patrimoniales

Déploiement

Informatique autonome

Modèle à composants

Cloud computing

Distributed systems

Legacy applications

Deployment

Autonomic computing

Component-based model

Résumé

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'offrir une solution de bout en bout permettant de décrire et de déployer de façon fiable une application distribuée dans un environnement virtualisé. Ceci passe par la définition d'un formalisme permettant de décrirer une application ainsi que son environnement d'exécution, puis de fournir les outils capable d'interpéter ce formalisme pour déployer (installer, instancier et configurer) l'application sur une plate-forme de type cloud computing.

Cloud computing aims to cut down on the outlay and operational expenses involved in setting up and running applications. To do this, an application is split into a set of virtualized hardware and software resources. This virtualized application can be autonomously managed, making it responsive to the dynamic changes affecting its running environment. This is referred to as Application Life-cycle Management (ALM). In cloud computing, ALM is a growing but immature market, with many offers claiming to significantly improve productivity. However, all these solutions are faced with a major restriction: the duality between the level of autonomy they offer and the type of applications they can handle. To address this, this thesis focuses on managing the initial deployment of an application to demonstrate that the duality is artificial. The main contributions of this work are presented in a platform named VAMP (Virtual Applications Management Platform). VAMP can deploy any legacy application distributed in the cloud, in an autonomous, generic and reliable way. It consists of: • a component-based model to describe the elements making up an application and their projection on the running infrastructure, as well as the dependencies binding them in the applicative architecture; • an asynchronous, distributed and reliable protocol for self-configuration and self-activation of the application; • mechanisms ensuring the reliability of the VAMP system itself. Beyond implementing the solution, the most critical aspects of running VAMP have been formally verified using model checking tools. A validation step was also used to demonstrate the genericity of the proposal through various real-life implementations.