This document discusses managing the cloud with open source tools. It provides an overview of cloud computing, including its key characteristics like elasticity and pay-per-use model. It also covers open source philosophy and the importance of open source tools for cloud management. The document evaluates several popular open source provisioning, configuration, automation and monitoring tools used for cloud management. It concludes that while cloud computing provides benefits, effective management is still needed and open source tools can help organizations manage their cloud resources.
Final Year IEEE Project 2013-2014 - Cloud Computing Project Title and Abstractelysiumtechnologies
This document provides contact information for Elysium Technologies Private Limited, an IT services company with branches across India. It lists the company's address, phone numbers, and email contacts for its branches in cities including Madurai, Chennai, Trichy, Coimbatore, and others. It also mentions the company has 13 years of experience, 250+ developers, and provides services including automated services, 24/7 help desk support, and ticketing/appointment systems.
The document discusses community clouds as a shared cloud infrastructure service. It notes that cloud computing enables on-demand access to configurable computing resources. A community cloud is a cloud infrastructure shared by a specific community for advantages like cost savings, flexibility, and standardization to prevent lock-in. The document outlines different cloud models and focuses on the infrastructure as a service model. It describes options like a federated or brokered community cloud model and notes challenges around licensing, security, and standardization.
Cloud computing provides many benefits but also poses security risks due to data being stored remotely. This document discusses several key security threats in cloud computing like data leakage, attacks against the cloud infrastructure, and issues regarding access control and data segregation. It proposes some solutions to address these risks, such as access control management, incident response processes, data partitioning, and migration capabilities to improve security in cloud environments.
Group seminar report on cloud computingSandhya Rathi
It is short and sobar.It contains information of
Architectural Considerations in that contains Cloud Platform, Cloud Storage, Cloud Services..... Types of Services is also contain in that
Software as a Service(SaaS) ,Platform as a Service(PaaS) , Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS)
This document provides an overview of cloud computing and discusses various topics related to cloud computing including:
- How cloud computing works by storing data on servers that can be accessed over the internet.
- Different types of cloud data storage including individual, public, private, and hybrid cloud storage.
- How music cloud services work by either streaming music profiles or downloading files.
- The importance of data security in the cloud through firewalls, antivirus software, and network protocols.
- Key considerations for effective cloud storage management including storage levels, data isolation, and reporting tools.
The document discusses cloud computing and defines it as the delivery of computing resources over the Internet. It describes the key characteristics of cloud computing including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. It also discusses the benefits of cloud computing such as cost savings, scalability, reliability, and simplified maintenance. Finally, it outlines the important components needed to build a dynamic cloud infrastructure including service management, asset management, virtualization, and energy efficiency.
This document is a magazine issue from 2009 about cloud computing. It contains several articles on topics related to cloud computing. The issue aims to provide answers to questions around cloud adoption, including whether cost is the only driver, if there is an enterprise use case, and what applications are best suited. It explores issues like interoperability, standardization, security and usability that could impact mainstream adoption. The articles discuss how cloud could power new business models and solutions. The issue seeks to help "clear the clouds" around adopting cloud computing.
Cloud computing refers to flexible, on-demand access to shared computing resources via the internet. Resources such as memory, storage, and processing power can be allocated as needed without direct involvement of IT staff. This allows organizations to scale their infrastructure up or down easily based on current needs. The term "cloud" originated as a symbol used to represent the public internet in network diagrams. Moving applications and services to cloud providers over the internet is now commonly referred to as migrating to the "cloud".
The document provides background information on the instructor for a cloud computing course. It introduces Tudor Marius Cosmin as the instructor and outlines his professional experience in cloud delivery and IT management. It also reviews the course timetable and provides an overview of topics to be covered in the first session, including a history of cloud computing, fundamental concepts and terminology, cloud characteristics and delivery models, and benefits and challenges of cloud computing.
This document is a training report on cloud deployment submitted by Virendra Singh Ruhela to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Government Engineering College Bikaner in partial fulfillment of a Bachelor of Technology degree. It includes an acknowledgment section thanking those who provided guidance and support. The abstract provides a high-level overview of cloud computing, how it offers a solution for managing computing resources, and how it is being used in various fields.
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This document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts including definitions, characteristics, service models, deployment models and examples. It defines cloud computing according to NIST as a model for enabling network access to configurable computing resources that can be provisioned with minimal management effort. The key characteristics are on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. The common service models are SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Deployment models include private, public and hybrid clouds. Examples of applications and potential benefits are also provided.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing, including its basic concepts, deployment models (public, private, hybrid, community clouds), technologies (virtualization, service-oriented architecture, grid computing, utility computing), architecture, infrastructure, planning process, and benefits and risks of different cloud models. It is intended as a tutorial for beginners to understand cloud computing concepts.
This document discusses enabling technologies for cloud computing, focusing on service oriented architecture and representational state transfer (REST) systems. It describes service oriented architecture as a design approach involving independent services that communicate with each other over a network. It outlines the layered architecture for web services and grids, and compares grids and clouds, noting that grids apply static resources while clouds emphasize elastic resources. It provides a brief overview of REST, describing it as a way to get information content from websites by reading designated web pages containing XML files that describe and include preferred content.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It has three service models - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). IaaS provides basic computing resources, PaaS provides platforms to build applications, and SaaS provides complete applications users can access. Popular cloud platforms include Amazon EC2 for IaaS and Google App Engine for PaaS. Cloud computing offers advantages like scalability, cost savings and device independence.
The document provides an overview of cloud computing concepts and mechanisms. It discusses key topics like virtual servers, ready-made environments, automated scaling listeners, failover systems, multi-device brokers, pay-per-use monitors, state management databases, and resource replication. These mechanisms work together to establish cloud-based technology architectures and allow cloud providers to share physical resources with multiple consumers.
This document outlines cloud computing, including its definition, history, services provided, architecture, behavior, advantages, and disadvantages. Cloud computing allows users to access software and store data over the internet rather than on a local computer. The concept originated in the 1960s and was enabled by developments in utility computing and grid computing. Major cloud services include SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Cloud architecture involves large data centers and dynamic allocation of resources. While providing cost savings and ease of use, security and connectivity issues present disadvantages.
Cloud Computing is a general term used to describe a new class of network based computing that takes place over the Internet, basically a step on from Utility Computing
a collection/group of integrated and networked hardware, software and Internet infrastructure (called a platform).
Using the Internet for communication and transport provides hardware, software and networking services to clients
This document discusses cloud computing, defining it as a computing platform that provides dynamic resource pools, virtualization, and high availability. It outlines the key benefits of cloud computing such as reduced costs through improved utilization and faster deployment cycles. The document also defines clouds and cloud applications, explaining that cloud computing dynamically provisions, configures, and deprovisions servers as needed to host web applications accessible over the internet.
Open Source Toolchains to Manage Cloud InfrastructureMark Hinkle
Open Source Toolchains to Manage Cloud Infrastructure presentation for Cloud Computing Expo East - June 6, 2011.
Added APIs (jclouds, fog, libcloud, deltacloud)
This document discusses open source cloud alternatives and their advantages over proprietary cloud solutions. It outlines analysts' views that hybrid cloud usage will increase significantly by 2017. It also notes that over $1 billion has been invested in companies building services around open source platforms like OpenStack. Key benefits of open source cloud include more contributors to the code, greater trust and maturity, and less vendor lock-in. Challenges include changing mindsets and hiring talent experienced with open source technologies. Real-world examples of organizations using open source cloud solutions include CERN and PayPal.
Open Source in the Cloud Computing EraTim O'Reilly
While open source software plays an important role in many cloud applications, we need to understand where the cloud is taking us or we'll find ourselves in the grip of a new monopoly. Open source needs to get serious about building interoperable open data services - they are the operating system of the internet.
Cloud Computing Expo West - Crash Course in Open Source Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This document provides an overview of open source cloud computing. It discusses the characteristics and service models of cloud computing, as well as popular open source virtualization and storage options like Xen, KVM, GlusterFS, and Ceph. It also examines open source tools for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and automation/orchestration of cloud infrastructure and management toolchains. Questions from attendees are addressed at the end.
Get Your Head in the Cloud! Cloud Computing and Open Source Tools for TeachersJennifer Peters
This document discusses cloud computing and open source tools that can be used by teachers. It begins by defining cloud computing as storing applications and files online rather than locally, allowing for increased collaboration, sharing, and portability. Potential downsides include software limitations and reliability issues. Open source software is described as free to use and modify. Benefits include cost, customization, and improvements by users, while potential challenges include usability and support. A list of specific popular cloud and open source tools for teaching is then provided.
AbiCloud is an open source toolset that allows users to easily create and manage their own virtualized cloud infrastructure. It provides virtual computers that can be distributed across resources for improved speed, efficiency, and control. AbiCloud helps ISPs and companies manage virtual applications, offer scalable hosting services, and work with their preferred cloud providers in a pay-as-you-go model. The AbiCloud architecture includes a user-friendly Surface client, an abiServer for managing datacenters as a single virtual computer, and abiCloud web services using industry-standard virtualization technologies.
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
It is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
In this webinar, participants will learn:
Completely new way to manage Apache CloudStack with service provider, reseller and customer views.
Reliably collecting performance metrics from guests running inside Cloud stack
How to render Cloud Stack Tenant UI with ActOnCloud User Interface
Generate Detailed Billing Usage Reports for different cloudstack accounts
How to manage multiple cloudstack instances
How to perform capacity planning for Zones inside Cloud stack
How to autoscale VMs in VPC without depending on Hardware based loadbalancers
How to group VMs and apply policies and rules to govern and optimize them
Managing hybrid cloud.
Also if you are tired of seeing the old UI? You can find here the next generation mobile responsive interface to manage your cloud stack.
Open Source Libraries - Managing Risk in Cloud Suman Sourav
In recent months we have seen several critical security threat because of third party libraries used in software products and services, Heartbleed, POODLE is a great example of it but things are not limited here since we have large threat landscape because of huge consumption of external third party components in cloud application development. Security threat will not stop ever since new attack vectors will keep coming in these open/external sources components but what is important here is how we handle risks due to these third party libraries.
Overview of various cloud-based tools that can be used to enhance teaching and learning and/or increase business effectiveness and efficiency.
This webinar will explore the potential of using cloud-based tools in a range of contexts including:
• Teaching and learning
• Working practice
• Work / life balance
Volunteering at YouSee on Technology SupportYouSee
This document provides instructions for volunteering to develop IT solutions for social causes using open source web application programming. It discusses installing PHP, MySQL, Apache and related tools on Windows using WAMP server or on Linux. It also covers using Git and GitHub for collaboratively developing software by forking repositories, cloning them locally, committing changes and pushing them to the remote repository. The key steps are to install necessary software, fork a project repository on GitHub, clone it locally, make code changes, commit and push them for review and merging into the master repository.
Deploying, Managing, and Leveraging Honeypots in the Enterprise using Open So...Jason Trost
2015 is turning out to be the most spectacular year of high profile compromises across almost every vertical and many companies are starting to consider new options to raise the bar for intrusion detection and incident response, including deploying honeypots.
In this workshop we will present an overview of the current state of the art of leveraging open source tools to build a novel intrusion detection system inside the enterprise. We will discuss the pros/cons and ins/outs of several major open source honeypots as well as how to manage and deploy these sensors using the Modern Honey Network, Splunk, as well as integration into other systems such as ArcSight. We will discuss real world deployments of honeypots, what worked and what didn't as well as recommendations for getting the most out of these non-convention network sensors.
Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud ComputingMark Hinkle
This presentation was given at LinuxCon 2010.
The proliferation of cloud computing is inevitable, hosted apps, software-as-as-service and now dynamic on-demand utility computing is becoming the norm. The session will be a “fire-side” chat style discussion of the types of challenges presented by IT management operations personnel and how they can manage cloud infrastructure using open source tools. The talk will discuss options for deploying and integrating tools that provision, configure, orchestrate and monitor cloud (and physical)infrastructure. The session will appeal to those IT professionals (syadmins, net-ops, developers) who develop and manage infrastructure that resides in hosted environments like Amazon EC2 without disregarding traditionally hosted internal infrastructure.
This document discusses a new type of gated continuous wave (CW) radar that offers improvements over traditional gated CW radars. It operates using a pulsed transmit signal and gated receive path, along with a receiver bandwidth restricted to only the central frequency components of the received pulse spectrum. This new gated CW radar uses a Performance Network Analyzer in place of a vector network analyzer for higher data acquisition speeds and other enhancements. It provides better accuracy, circularity and lower cost than an equivalent pulsed intermediate frequency radar while maintaining the efficiency advantages of gated CW radars for indoor use.
CAPS: What's best for deploying and managing OpenStack? Chef vs. Ansible vs. ...Daniel Krook
Presentation at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan on October 29, 2015.
http://sched.co/49vI
This talk will cover the pros and cons of four different OpenStack deployment mechanisms. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Salt for OpenStack all claim to make it much easier to configure and maintain hundreds of OpenStack deployment resources. With the advent of large-scale, highly available OpenStack deployments spread across multiple global regions, the choice of which deployment methodology to use has become more and more relevant.
Beyond the initial day-one deployment, when it comes to the day-two and beyond questions of updating and upgrading existing OpenStack deployments, it becomes all the more important choose the right tool.
Come join the Bluebox and IBM team to discuss the pros and cons of these approaches. We look at each of these four tools in depth, explore their design and function, and determine which scores higher than others to address your particular deployment needs.
Daniel Krook - Senior Software Engineer, Cloud and Open Source Technologies, IBM
Paul Czarkowski - Cloud Engineer at Blue Box, an IBM company
Daniel Krook - Senior Software Engineer, Cloud and Open Source Technologies, IBM
Open Source Cloud Computing -EucalyptusSameer Naik
Eucalyptus is an open-source software platform that allows organizations to build private and hybrid clouds with the same interfaces, tools, and APIs used to build public cloud environments like Amazon Web Services. It provides a framework for IT infrastructure and datacenter management by creating private clouds that are compatible with Amazon EC2 and S3. Eucalyptus is maintained by Eucalyptus Systems and provides a private cloud solution through components like the cloud controller, cluster controller, node controller, and storage controller.
Managing a large open source community - OSCON 2016{code}
Increasing your online presence in the open source community involves more than just writing and committing code. We need to create safe places to collaborate and communicate freely in order to involve more people than just our closest team members. Jonas Rosland and Stephanie Carlson outline a few of the tools they use to tackle this big task and discuss failures, successes, and lessons learned.
Our presentation from the media web symposium 2013 in Berlin on the open source landscape around MPEG-DASH as well as on cloud-based services for MPEG-DASH
A seminar presentation on Open Source by Ritwick Halder - a computer science engineering student at Academy Of Technology, West Bengal, India - 2013
Personal Website - www.ritwickhalder.com
Delivering IaaS with Open Source SoftwareMark Hinkle
Mark Hinkle presented on delivering Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) using open source software. He discussed various open source tools for building cloud computing including hypervisors like KVM and Xen, object storage solutions like OpenStack Swift, and automation/orchestration tools like CloudStack and OpenStack. Hinkle emphasized that open source solutions provide many advantages for cloud computing including lower costs, collaboration, and avoidance of vendor lock-in. He also covered management tools for private clouds and highlighted the importance of automation.
Mr. Suraj Mehta submitted a seminar report on "Google App Engine" to the Department of Computer Engineering at KJ's Educational Institute in Pune, India. The report provides an overview of Google App Engine, including how it works, its storage management, development workflow, quotas and limits, and a proposed framework for using App Engine for parameter studies. It also discusses advantages, disadvantages, and compares App Engine to other cloud platforms. The seminar guide and HOD of the Computer Engineering department certified that Mehta satisfactorily completed the report as required.
Implementing Saas as Cloud controllers using Mobile Agent based technology wi...Sunil Rajput
Setup your own cloud for Software as a Service (SaaS) over the existing LAN in your laboratory. In this assignment you have to write your own code for cloud controllers using open source technologies without HDFS. Implementing the basic operations may be like uploading and downloading files on/from cloud in encrypted form.
The document provides a seminar report on cloud storage. It discusses the evolution of cloud computing, cloud architecture including delivery and deployment models, and security challenges in cloud computing. Specifically, it outlines key security concerns around outsourcing data and computations to the cloud including loss of control, privacy violations, and ensuring only authorized access. The report was prepared by a student for their BTech degree and approved by their college.
This document discusses implementing single sign-on for a multi-tenant SaaS application using SAML. It aims to address the issue of multi-tenancy in SaaS applications by allowing users to authenticate using their identity provider credentials rather than separate application credentials. The author implemented a loosely coupled SAML-based single sign-on solution for a SaaS application deployed on public cloud. This included configuring the application as a SAML service provider, importing identity provider metadata, and evaluating the solution to reduce storage and communication costs compared to conventional username/password authentication.
The document is a thesis proposal for a cloud-based microservice architecture for the Skolrutiner system. It begins with an introduction that outlines the motivation and contributions of the thesis. It then provides background on cloud computing and microservices. The current system design is discussed along with its drawbacks. A new proposed cloud-based microservice architecture is then presented and evaluated, with the goal of addressing issues with the current centralized system. The thesis concludes by summarizing the contributions and discussing potential future work.
The document is a seminar report submitted by Alin Babu on the topic of secure cloud storage. It discusses cloud computing models and services, different access control mechanisms like mandatory access control and discretionary access control. It also covers secure data storage using AES encryption and the Disintegration Protocol (DIP) architecture for enhancing cloud security. Proxy re-encryption schemes and their advantages for secure file sharing in cloud applications like Dropbox and SugarSync are also summarized.
Cloud computing is affecting the software development process. It provides resources over the internet rather than requiring direct physical access. This allows developers to access resources from anywhere and reduces costs since users only pay for what they use. Cloud computing introduces new concepts like mesh computing and pay-per-use services. Research is investigating how cloud computing reduces development costs and time by making services easily accessible. However, security and privacy concerns remain an issue with storing data on external provider networks rather than locally.
This document is a project report that proposes developing a web application to securely store files on a cloud server using hybrid cryptography. It aims to address data security and privacy issues for cloud storage. The application would use a hybrid cryptography technique combining symmetric and asymmetric encryption to encrypt files before uploading them to the cloud. Only authorized users with decryption keys would be able to access and download encrypted files from the cloud server. The report outlines the problem statement, objectives, methodology, design, and implementation of the proposed application to provide secure file storage on the cloud.
Ensuring Distributed Accountability in the CloudSuraj Mehta
Ensuring distributed accountability for data sharing in the cloud is in short nothing
but a novel highly decentralized information accountability framework to keep track
of the actual usage of the users' data in the cloud. Cloud computing enables highly
ecient services that are easily consumed over the internet.
Cloud computing builds on established trends like virtualization, on-demand deployment models, and delivering services over the network. It transforms application development by allowing applications to be rapidly deployed on virtual machines in a self-service manner and scaled up automatically as needed. Developers now take on more of an architect role in programming how their applications dynamically compose and scale across infrastructure resources. This approach can significantly reduce costs and speed up innovation cycles compared to traditional enterprise computing.
This document outlines a proposed solution to implement server virtualization at Kuliyyah of Information Communication and Technology (KICT) to address the high demand for server resources from students and lecturers. It discusses problems with the current limited server infrastructure and reviews literature showing how server virtualization and cloud computing can improve resource utilization and reduce costs. The proposed solution called CLOUDIIUM would create multiple virtual servers from existing physical servers to provide a platform for educational purposes like hosting websites and allowing hands-on system administration tasks.
This thesis document describes Pierre Châtel's work toward a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6. The thesis addresses the problem of agile service composition in distributed systems while considering non-functional constraints. The research objectives are to promote reactivity in complex distributed systems through late binding of services based on quality of service values, and to enable useful service composition through qualitative modeling and reasoning about preferences over non-functional properties. The thesis presents contributions in active, useful, and agile service composition, and includes formalization of the Linguistic CP-net model and details of an implementation framework.
This document is an introduction to cloud computing architecture that discusses:
- Cloud computing builds on established trends like virtual machines, on-demand services delivered over the network, and open source software.
- There are three cloud infrastructure models: public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds. Architectural layers include SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
- Cloud computing benefits include reducing costs and response times while increasing agility and the pace of innovation.
This document is an introduction to cloud computing architecture that discusses:
- Cloud computing builds on established trends like virtual machines, on-demand services delivered over the network, and open source software.
- There are three cloud infrastructure models: public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds. Architectural layers include SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
- Cloud computing benefits include reducing costs and response times while increasing agility and the pace of innovation.
Cloud computing builds upon established trends like virtualization, on-demand resources, self-service models, and internet-delivered services. It transforms how applications are designed, developed, deployed and managed. Key aspects include using virtual machines as standard deployment objects, consuming computing resources as a pay-per-use service, and programming the infrastructure through APIs to dynamically configure and scale applications. This allows applications to be rapidly and automatically deployed across many servers in public or private clouds.
Mikel berdufi university_of_camerino_thesisMikel Berdufi
This document discusses trust management in a multicloud computing environment. It begins by providing an overview of cloud computing and single cloud environments, describing deployment models, security and privacy issues, and approaches. It then discusses multi-cloud environments, challenges, benefits, and management software. The concept of trust and trust models are explained. Existing trust management techniques and prototypes are reviewed. The document proposes a trust management system for multiclouds using OpenStack and Jclouds, describing tests performed and the system architecture. It concludes by discussing future work.
How will cloud computing transform technologyTarunabh Verma
Cloud computing has huge potential to transform technology by providing on-demand access to computing resources over the network. It is growing rapidly with increasing adoption across industries like healthcare, education and small businesses. The future of cloud computing looks promising with continued growth driven by factors like increased internet access, industry adoption and government initiatives. Hybrid IT models that leverage both public and private clouds are expected to be the dominant architecture going forward.
This document summarizes a seminar report on cluster computing. The report discusses cluster components including applications, middleware, operating systems, interconnects, and nodes. It describes different types of clusters such as high availability clusters, load balancing clusters, and high performance clusters. It highlights advantages like high processing capacity and disadvantages like increased difficulty of management. It provides examples of cluster applications such as Google search engines, petroleum simulation, protein exploration, and earthquake simulation.
Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computingmustafa sarac
This technical report from UC Berkeley researchers discusses the emergence and future of serverless computing. It defines serverless computing and contrasts it with traditional server-based cloud computing. Serverless computing automates resource provisioning and management, allowing developers to focus on writing code without worrying about infrastructure. The report outlines several challenges that must be addressed for serverless computing to reach its full potential, such as improving storage capabilities and enabling fine-grained coordination between functions. It predicts that serverless computing will continue growing to become the dominant model for cloud development.
USING SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTERS TO ENABLE CLOUD BUILDERSJuniper Networks
Juniper-VMware Areas of Collaboration
Customers looking to cloud technologies for better application agility and more efficient support of their entire IT operations are finding that broader use of virtualization across hardware is fundamental to achieving these goals.
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We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner!
We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too!
Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇
08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30')
09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10')
Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath
Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner
09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30')
Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA
Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
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Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company
Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company
10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30')
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15')
10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45')
Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath
11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45')
Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager
12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr)
13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30')
Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance
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Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai
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Performance budgets have been around for more than ten years. Over those years, we’ve learned a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and what we need to improve. In this session, Tammy revisits old assumptions about performance budgets and offers some new best practices. Topics include:
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• Aligning budgets with user experience
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• How to stay on top of your budgets to fight regressions
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MYIR, recognized as a national high-tech enterprise, is also listed among the "Specialized
and Special new" Enterprises in Shenzhen, China. Our core belief is that "Our success stems from our customers' success" and embraces the philosophy
of "Make Your Idea Real, then My Idea Realizing!"
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Seminar Report - Managing the Cloud with Open Source Tools
1. Managing the Cloud with Open
Source Tools
A seminar report
submitted in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the award of the degree of
Bachelor of Technology
in
Computer Science and Engineering
(University of Calicut)
by
Nakul E Sibiraj
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram
(ISO 9001-2000 Certified Institution, Affiliated to University of Calicut)
Thrikkanapuram PO, Malappuram Dt, Kerala - 679573
2011-12
2. Certificate
This is to certify that the seminar report entitled “Managing the cloud with
open source tools” is a bonafide record of the work done by Nakul E Sibiraj
(Roll no: 08103138) under our supervision and guidance. The report has been sub-
mitted to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of MES
College of Engineering in partial fulfilment of the award of the degree of Bach-
elor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering.
Dr. Abdul Haleem P.P Ms. Binu John
Professor and Head Seminar Guide
Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering Assistant Professor
MES College of Engineering Dept.of Computer Science and Engineering
MES College of Engineering
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Abstract
Cloud computing is a promising paradigm designed to harness the power of
networks of computers and communications in a more cost effective way. Clouds
provide elastic capacity to serve a wide and constantly expanding range of infor-
mation processing needs, including government, military, business and education.
The cloud computing paradigm is maturing rapidly and is being considered for
adoption in government and business platforms. Open source systems refer to
software systems whose source code is available, allowing for immediate incorpo-
ration of improvements and adaptations of the system by its users. This paper
reports on an evaluation of open source management tools for cloud computing.
Cloud computing is not a magical solution, planning and management of resources
and the cloud in itself is pivotal. In this report, we compare and evaluate a number
of open source tools used in the industry to manage and automate the cloud. We
evaluate provisioning tools, orchestration tools, configuration tools and monitoring
tools.
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Acknowledgements
I take this opportunity to convey my deep and sincere thanks to our
Principal, Dr. V. H. Abdul Salam and Head of the Department, Dr. Abdul
Haleem P.P, for providing all facilities for my seminar presentation.
I express my heartiest thanks to my guide, Ms. Binu John, Asst. Professor,
dept. of CSE for her timely guidance and help.
I also extend my deep gratitude to my seminar coordinators Mr. Arun
Anoop M, Asst Prof, dept. of CSE, Mr. Aneesh M Haneef, Asst Prof, dept. of
CSE and Ms. Jabin A, Asst. Prof, dept. of CSE for their valuable help and
support in presenting the seminar.
I express my sincere gratitude to all the staff of Computer Science and
Engineering Department and my beloved family members who helped me with
their timely suggestions and support.
I also express my sincere thanks to all my friends who helped me through-
out the successful completion of the work.
Nakul E Sibiraj
9. Chapter 1
Introduction
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a prod-
uct, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to comput-
ers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically
the Internet).
Cloud computing is an emerging computing technology that is rapidly con-
solidating itself as the next big step in the development and deployment of an
increasing number of distributed applications.
Open source refers to any software system whose source code is made avail-
able for use or modification by third-party developers. Thus, unlike centralized,
proprietary software development models, open source offers practical accessibility
to the source code, allowing for immediate and concurrent incorporation of dif-
ferent approaches, and eventually, the branching of the system into customized
variants.
Merging these two trends leads to a new breed of tools: Open source cloud
computing tools (OSCCT). These tools provide a free, customizable infrastructure
to deploy clouds for any type of application domain.
Cloud computing is not a management solution, it has to be managed well to
yield success. We take a look at the various open source tools available to manage
the cloud in the various management disciplines of the cloud.
10. Chapter 2
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is a marketing term for technologies that provide compu-
tation, software, data access, and storage services that do not require end-user
knowledge of the physical location and configuration of the system that delivers
the services. A parallel to this concept can be drawn with the electricity grid,
wherein end-users consume power without needing to understand the component
devices or infrastructure required to provide the service.
Cloud computing describes a new supplement, consumption, and delivery
model for IT services based on Internet protocols, and it typically involves provi-
sioning of dynamically scalable and often virtualised resources. It is a by-product
and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the
Internet. This may take the form of web-based tools or applications that users can
access and use through a web browser as if the programs were installed locally on
their own computers.
Cloud computing providers deliver applications via the internet, which are
accessed from web browsers and desktop and mobile apps, while the business soft-
ware and data are stored on servers at a remote location.
Cloud computing is built upon the broader concept of infrastructure conver-
gence (or converged infrastructure) and shared services. This type of data center
environment allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster,
with easier manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly
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adjust IT resources (such as servers, storage, and networking) to meet fluctuating
and unpredictable business demand.
Most cloud computing infrastructures consist of services delivered through
shared data-centers and appearing as a single point of access for consumer’s com-
puting needs. Commercial offerings may be required to meet service-level agree-
ments (SLAs), but specific terms are less often negotiated by smaller companies.
2.1 Characteristics
Here are some of the characteristics of cloud computing that urges businesses
and enterprises to adopt cloud computing.
• Application Programming Interface (API) provides accessibility to
software the same way the user interface facilitates interaction between
humans and computers.
• Cost is claimed to be reduced and in a public cloud delivery model, capital
expenditure is converted to operational expenditure. This is purported to
lower barriers to entry, as infrastructure is typically provided by a third-
party and does not need to be purchased for one-time or infrequent inten-
sive computing tasks. Pricing on a utility computing basis is fine-grained
with usage-based options and fewer IT skills are required for implementa-
tion.
• Device and location independence enable users to access systems us-
ing a web browser regardless of their location or what device they are using
(e.g., PC, mobile phone). As infrastructure is off-site (typically provided
by a third-party) and accessed via the Internet, users can connect from
anywhere.
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• Multi-tenancy enables sharing of resources and costs across a large pool
of users thus allowing for:
∗ Centralisation of infrastructure in locations with lower costs (such
as real estate, electricity, etc.)
∗ Peak-load capacity increases (users need not engineer for highest
possible load-levels)
∗ Utilisation and efficiency improvements for systems that are often
only 10 to 20% utilised.
• Reliability is improved if multiple redundant sites are used, which makes
well-designed cloud computing suitable for business continuity and disaster
recovery.
• Scalability and Elasticity via dynamic (”on-demand”) provisioning of
resources on a fine-grained, self-service basis near real-time, without users
having to engineer for peak loads.
• Maintenance of cloud computing applications is easier, because they do
not need to be installed on each user’s computer.
2.2 Layers
Once an internet protocol connection is established among several computers,
it is possible to share services within any one of the following layers.
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Figure 2.1: Cloud Computing Layers
Client: A cloud client consists of computer hardware and/or computer soft-
ware that relies on cloud computing for application delivery and that is in essence
useless without it. Examples include some computers, phones and other devices,
operating systems, and browsers.
Application: Cloud application services or ”Software as a Service (SaaS)”
deliver software as a service over the Internet, eliminating the need to install and
run the application on the customer’s own computers and simplifying maintenance
and support.
Platform: Cloud platform services, also known as platform as a service
(PaaS), deliver a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service, often
consuming cloud infrastructure and sustaining cloud applications. It facilitates
deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and man-
aging the underlying hardware and software layers.
Infrastructure: Cloud infrastructure services, also known as ”infrastruc-
ture as a service” (IaaS), deliver computer infrastructure typically a platform
virtualisation environment as a service, along with raw (block) storage and net-
working. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data-center space or network
equipment, clients instead buy those resources as a fully outsourced service.
Server: The servers layer consists of computer hardware and/or computer
software products that are specifically designed for the delivery of cloud services,
including multi-core processors, cloud-specific operating systems and combined
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offerings.
2.3 Deployment Models
Figure 2.2: Cloud Computing Deployment Models
Public cloud is one based on the standard cloud computing model, in which
a service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to
the general public over the Internet. Public cloud services may be free or offered
on a pay-per-usage model.
Private cloud is infrastructure operated solely for a single organization,
whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or exter-
nally. They have attracted criticism because users ”still have to buy, build, and
manage them” and thus do not benefit from lower up-front capital costs and less
hands-on management, essentially ”[lacking] the economic model that makes cloud
computing such an intriguing concept”
Hybrid cloud is a composition of two or more clouds (private, community,
or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together, offering the benefits
of multiple deployment models. It can also be defined as multiple cloud systems
that are connected in a way that allows programs and data to be moved easily
from one deployment system to another.
15. Chapter 3
Open Source Philosophy and Impact
3.1 What is Open Source?
Open source software is usually developed as a public collaboration and is of-
ten made freely available. Open source is indeed a certification mark owned by the
open source initiative (OSI). It is a software that is intended to be freely shared,
modified, and redistributed by others who may use the open source trademark,
provided that the distribution terms conform to the OSI’s open source definition.
The main elements in this definition are:
(1) The software must be redistributed without restriction.
(2) The source code must be made available.
(3) The license can require improved versions of the software to carry a differ-
ent name or version from the original software.
3.2 Why Open Source?
Here is a list of some of the aspects of open source that may represent a
competitive advantage in the software market especially cloud computing.
• The continuous and broad peer-review enabled by publicly available source
code supports software reliability and security efforts through the identifi-
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cation and elimination of defects that might otherwise go unrecognized by
a more limited core development team.
• The unrestricted ability to modify software source code enables the de-
partment to respond more rapidly to changing situations, missions, and
future threats.
• Reliance on a particular software developer or vendor due to proprietary
restrictions may be reduced by the use of OSS, which can be operated and
maintained by multiple vendors, thus reducing barriers to entry and exit.
• Since OSS typically does not have a per-seat licensing cost, it can provide
a cost advantage in situations where many copies of the software may be
required, and can mitigate risk of cost growth due to licensing in situations
where the total number of users may not be known in advance.
17. Chapter 4
Open Source and Cloud Computing
Open source software (OSS) is a common thread permeating cloud comput-
ing. It is being used to build the cloud (such as the Linux foundation for Google,
salesforce.com and Amazon cloud services); it is being built on top of cloud services
(for example, Eucalyptus); and proprietary software used to deliver cloud services
is increasingly being moved into open source (including Facebook open platform
and Hadoop).
The relationship that is being forged between OSS and cloud computing is
not a matter of coincidence; it is a matter of symbiosis. Massive data centers built
on low-cost commodity hardware and virtualized operating environments provide
the technical foundations for global class cloud-based services.
Cloud computing and open source share a common connection when a layer
of software can be abstracted, they both act as agents to fundamentally alter tra-
ditional economic assumptions. Cloud computing does this through lower service
costs, greater resource sharing, greater economies of scale, greater levels of archi-
tectural standardization and process optimization, and the ability to modify the
usage of those resources much more quickly than with traditional software. Open-
source software does this by eliminating the ability of any one provider to exploit
the terms and conditions of an end user license agreement linked to proprietary
code - a problem that increases, the more ubiquitous a product becomes.
In this way, cloud computing and open-source software are synergistically
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bound in a virtuous circle. Cloud computing directly benefits from greater use of
OSS, because it eliminates critical dependencies that can impact service delivery.
And the more that cloud computing utilizes OSS, the more mature and diverse
the open-source stack will become. The more mature and diverse the stack, the
more cloud can expand.
Another important dynamic of open source software is that it is conducive
to service-based business models - a function of the fact that it is very difficult
to commercialize code with a fluid ownership structure. Therefore, unlike soft-
ware governed under an end user license agreement, open-source software enables
cloud providers to tie component Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) to their own
customer-facing SLAs, which allows for risk distribution.
4.1 State of Open Source Adoption in Cloud Computing
Open source adoption in the cloud computing environment though has not
reached the expected heights, is still highly relevant. It is observed that the adop-
tion of OSS varies with the specializations and layers of cloud computing.
In the software as a service layer, open source has put up a disappointing
performance. It was estimated every year that the next year SAAS will see more
open source vendors. But, all of the major SAAS vendors such as google use closed
source software. The more frustrating aspect to the open source community is that
most of these services run on open source platforms such as LAMP.
Things are a little better in the platform as a service layer with a lot more
involvement from the open source community and industry with services such as
AppScale and RedHat’s OpenShift project.
The layer in which you see maximum involvement from the open source
industry is the infrastructure as a service layer. The leader in the public IAAS
is Amazon’s EC2 which is not open source, but it is in close competition with
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Rackspace’s open source project CloudStack.
And in the on-premise or private IAAS, we see total domination by open
source technologies with Eucalyptus leading and other open source vendors such
as Redhat, OpenNebula and Rackspace trailing close by.
20. Chapter 5
Open Source Cloud Management Tools
Now that we have made a case for both cloud computing and open source
we will list and evaluate the various disciplines, leading tools from each discipline
and after understanding the importance of rightful management and automation
of the cloud.
5.1 Importance of Cloud Management Tools
This is where life in the cloud can get very complicated. Its simple enough
to describe how to use some kind of cloud computing service, but you also have to
integrate it into the IT operations of the organization, and that isnt necessarily a
simple thing to do.
For example, because a cloud requires a self-service capability, it must be
designed to manage not just provisioning customer requests but also issues such
as workload management, security, metering, monitoring, and billing services.
Many managers understand that for cloud services to be safe and effective,
they must measure and monitor performance.
In fact, performance monitoring will become increasingly important as com-
panies rely more on third-party services. And, from all indications, a typical
company may use more than one cloud services provider. For example, a company
may use one cloud provider for a platform such as collaboration and a completely
different provider for compute services. They may use another provider for storage.
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Using tools to automate these various tasks are important. Having to per-
form these tasks manually is a tedious task and takes away from the cloud char-
acteristics of speed, cost-efficiency and convenience.
5.2 Cloud Management Disciplines
Cloud management is primarily classified into four disciplines:-
(1) Provisioning
(2) Configuration Management
(3) Automation/Orchestration
(4) Monitoring
5.2.1 Provisioning Tools
In terms of networking, provisioning is the process of preparing and equip-
ping a network to allow it to provide (new) services to its users. In the cloud,
provisioning tools are mostly used for the installation of operating systems and
other software.
Language License Targets
Cobbler Python GPL RedHat, OpenSUSE, Fedora,
Debian, Ubuntu
FAI Perl GPL Debian
Kickstart Python GPL Most Debian & Red Hat based
distros
Viper Perl GPL Debian
Table 5.1: Comparison of Provisioning Tools
Let us take a deeper look at some of the leading open source provisioning
tools in detail:-
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• Cobbler is a linux provisioning server that centralizes and simplifies con-
trol of services including DHCP, TFTP, and DNS for the purpose of per-
forming network-based operating system installations. It can be config-
ured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized guests using Xen, KVM or
VMware. Cobbler interacts with the koan program for re-installation and
virtualization support. koan and cobbler use libvirt to integrate with dif-
ferent virtualization software.
Cobbler builds on the kickstart mechanism and offers installation profiles
that can be applied to one or many machines. It also features integration
with yum to aid in machine installs.
Although cobbler primarily targets RPM-based installs via kickstart and
anaconda, it can be used to configure a PXE server to boot various non-
RPM boot images such as knoppix and other flavors of debian.
• FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage linux sys-
tems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines
and chroot environments, from small networks to large-scale infrastruc-
tures and clusters.
It’s a tool for unattended mass deployment of linux. You can take one or
more virgin PC’s, turn on the power, and after a few minutes, the systems
are installed, and completely configured to your exact needs, without any
interaction necessary.
• Kickstart installation method is used primarily (but not exclusively) by
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system to automatically perform
unattended operating system installation and configuration. Redhat pub-
lishes cobbler as a tool to automate the kickstart configuration process.
• Viper is a provisioning tool released under the GPLv3 license and can
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be used to install debian and some debian derived distributions. Viper is
coded entirely in perl.
5.2.2 Configuration Management Tools
Configuration management (CM) is a field of management that focuses on
establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product’s performance and
its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational
information throughout its life.
In the cloud, it is used mostly to set parameters for servers and start/stop
various services.
Year Started Language License
bcfg2 2003 Python BSD
Cfengine 1993 C Apache
Chef 2009 Ruby Apache
Puppet 2004 Ruby GPL
Table 5.2: Comparison of Configuration Tools
Let us take a deeper look at some of the leading open source configuration
management tools used in the cloud.
• Bcfg2 is a configuration management tool developed in the mathematics
and computer science division of Argonne National Laboratory. Bcfg2 aids
in the infrastructure management lifecycle conguration analysis, service
deployment, and conguration auditing. It includes tools for visualizing
conguration information, as well as reporting tools that help administrators
understand conguration patterns in their environments.
• Cfengine is a popular open source configuration management system,
written by Mark Burgess. Its primary function is to provide automated
configuration and maintenance of large-scale computer systems, including
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the unified management of servers, desktops, embedded networked devices,
mobile smartphones, and tablet computers.
• Chef is a configuration management tool written in ruby. It uses a pure-
ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration ”re-
cipies”. Chef was written by opscode and is released as open source under
the Apache license 2.0.
• Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of UNIX-like and
Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. The user describes system re-
sources and their state, either using puppet or ruby DSL (domain-specific
language). This information is stored in files called ”Puppet manifests”.
Puppet discovers the system information via a utility called facter, and
compiles the Puppet manifests into a system-specific catalog containing
resources and resource dependency, which are applied against the target
systems and any actions taken to remediate the system to the desired state
will be reported.
5.2.3 Automation/Orchestration Tools
Orchestration describes the automated arrangement, coordination, and man-
agement of complex computer systems, middleware, and services. It is basically
used in the cloud to automate tasks across systems.
Cloud service orchestration is the:-
• Composing of architecture, tools and processes by humans to deliver a
defined service
• Stitching of software and hardware components together to deliver a de-
fined service
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• Connecting and automating of work flows when applicable to deliver a
defined service
Language License Support Organization
AutomateIT Ruby GPL None
Capistrano Ruby MIT None
Control Tier Java Apache DTO Solutions
Func Python GPL Fedora Project
RunDeck Java Apache DTO Solutions
Table 5.3: Comparison of Automation Tools
Let us take a deeper look at some of the leading open source configuration
management tools used in the cloud.
• AutomateIT is an open source tool for automating the setup and main-
tenance of servers, applications and their dependencies. It provides a sur-
prisingly simple, yet powerful, way to manage files, packages, services,
networks, accounts, roles, templates and more.
• Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers;
its main use is deploying web applications. It automates the process of
making a new version of an application available on one or more web
servers, including supporting tasks such as changing databases.
• Control Tier is an open source, cross-platform build and deployment
automation framework. ControlTier can help you to coordinate and scale
service management and administration activities across multiple nodes
and application tiers.
• Func is a two-way authenticated system developed under the Fedora project.
You can build your own applications on top of it, and easily expand func
by adding in additional modules, whether you want these to work through
the func command line or by means of some other application.
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• RunDeck is cross-platform open source software that helps you automate
ad-hoc and routine procedures in data center or cloud environments. Run-
Deck allows you to run tasks on any number of nodes from a web-based or
command-line interface. RunDeck also includes other features that make
it easy to scale up your scripting efforts including: access control, work-
flow building, scheduling, logging, and integration with external sources
for node and option data.
5.2.4 Monitoring Tools
In terms of networking, monitoring describes the use of a system that con-
stantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that
notifies the network administrator (via email, pager or other alarms) in case of
outages.
Monitoring tools are used in the cloud to record errors and health of the IT
infrastructure.
License Language Type of Monitoring Collection Methods
Cacti GPL PHP Performance SNMP, syslog
Nagios GPL C/PHP Availability SNMP, TCP, ICMP,
IPMI, syslog
Zabbix GPL C/PHP Availability, Performance SNMP, TCP/ICMP/
IPMI, Synthetic Trans-
actions
Zenoss GPL Python Availability, Performance, SNMP, ICMP, SSH, sys-
Event Management log, WMI
Table 5.4: Comparison of Monitoring Tools
Let us take a deeper look at some of the leading open source configuration
management tools used in the cloud.
• Cacti is an open source, web-based graphing tool designed as a frontend
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to RRDtool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti allows a user
to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data. It
is generally used to graph time-series data of metrics such as CPU load and
network bandwidth utilization. A common usage is to monitor network
traffic by polling a network switch or router interface via SNMP.
• Nagios is a popular open source computer system and network monitoring
software application. It watches hosts and services, alerting users when
things go wrong and again when they get better.
• Zabbix is designed to monitor and track the status of various network
services, servers, and other network hardware.
• Zenoss is an open source application, server and network management
platform based on the Zope application server. Released under the GNU
General Public License (GPL) version 2, Zenoss Core provides a web in-
terface that allows system administrators to monitor availability, inven-
tory/configuration, performance and events.
28. Chapter 6
Conclusions
The leading technical research agency Gartner reports that by 2015, 20% of
the information technology based organizations would have completely adopted a
cloud computing solution, and 98% of enterprises use open source tools to manage
the cloud. Cloud computing and open source presents numerous opportunities to
each other.
Cloud computing is a promising paradigm designed to harness the power of
networks of computers and communications in a more cost effective way. We have
seen how the cloud computing hype is a reality and about the symbiosis between
open source and cloud computing. We also evaluated the top management tools
used in the cloud clearly establishing the open source dominance in that field.
Open source software for the most part of their existence has been disrupters,
be it the field of operating systems, databases or basic desktop and web program-
ming. But, cloud computing provides the open source industry to be an innovator
of the new rather than a disrupter of the old.
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