Enterprise IT is currently facing the challenge of coordinating the management of complex, multicomponent applications across heterogeneous cloud platforms. Containers and container orchestrators provide a valuable solution to deploy multicomponent applications over cloud platforms, by coupling the lifecycle of each application component to that of its hosting container. We hereby propose a solution for going beyond such a coupling, based on the OASIS standard TOSCA and on Docker. We indeed propose a novel approach for deploying multicomponent applications on top of existing container orchestrators, which enables managing each component independently from the container used to run it. We also present prototype tools that implement our approach, and we show how we effectively exploited them to carry out a concrete case study.

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基于云的企业应用程序的组件感知编排，从 TOSCA 到 Docker 和 Kubernetes

企业 IT 当前面临着跨异构云平台协调复杂、多组件应用程序管理的挑战。容器和容器编排器通过将每个应用程序组件的生命周期与其托管容器的生命周期相耦合，为在云平台上部署多组件应用程序提供了一种有价值的解决方案。我们在此提出一种基于 OASIS 标准 TOSCA 和 Docker 的解决方案，以超越这种耦合。我们确实提出了一种在现有容器编排器之上部署多组件应用程序的新方法，它可以独立于用于运行它的容器来管理每个组件。我们还展示了实现我们方法的原型工具，并展示了我们如何有效地利用它们来进行具体的案例研究。