[Isod-bof] Initial draft BCP in Infrastructure Services provisioning on-demand

[Yuri Demchenko]

Dear ISOD-RG members,

It was agreed at the last meeting to propose an initial drafts of two 
documents ISOD use cases and ISOD BCP.

Thanks to Chin, first draft has been posted and discussion is active.

Now I want to propose first ideas about the BCP document. This can also 
provide a basis for discussion at the group's meeting on Wednesday.

The draft document is attached and textual version is appended below for 
easier commenting and discussion.

Some general issues to discuss:

1) How much we want to describe Network Resource Provisioning Systems 
(NRPS) of which many of us knows a lot and also developed?

2) Template for collecting BCP information

3) General structure of the document - NRPS, Cloud IaaS, existing BCP, 
standards, Projects, middleware, or we better limit number of topics?

Comments are welcome and hope on fruitful discussion during the meeting.

Regards,

Yuri

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On-Demand Infrastructure Services Provisioning Best Practices
Contributors

Goal

The aim of this document is to provide an overview of best practices in 
provisioning infrastructure services on-demand that includes both 
traditional Network Resources Provisioning Systems (NRPS) and recently 
emerged Cloud based infrastructure services provisioning that may 
include different components that need to be combined into complex task 
or project oriented complex infrastructure comprising of compute, 
storage, applications and connecting them network infrastructure.

The proposed document summarises discussion among members of the OGF 
ISoD Research Group and aims to facilitate discussion on achieving 
interoperability and effective use and development of modern and future 
infrastructure services provisioning systems.

1. Introduction

Traditionally area of provisioning services or resources on-demand was 
related to provisioning network connectivity or bandwidth on-demand 
(BoD). There are many systems proposed for these purposes. The document 
provides information about such systems as

The Cloud Computing is developing as a technology for provisioning 
infrastructure services. In particular, Cloud Infrastructure as a 
Service (IaaS) service model specifically focused on providing 
infrastructures comprising of compute, storage and network for solving 
user defined tasks and/or supporting user defined processes or 
workflows. In general, other Cloud service model such as 
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), if used 
for supporting customer defined production or collaborative development 
processes (or migrating from traditional enterprise owned IT to Cloud 
based infrastructure) will also require integration of the provisioned 
software or platform components into infrastructures.

The proposed below overview and taxonomy of best practices targets to 
provide useful information for developing common and future 
infrastructure services provisioning models, architectures and frameworks.

2. Network Resources Provisioning Systems (NRPS)

TODO: Set of characteristics and parameter need to be established to 
describe existing NRPS. For example:

Description
Diagram
Parameters
Implementation and examples of use

2.1. OSCARS

2.2. Harmony

2.3. Autobanh

2.4. UCLP

2.5. Other NRPS
     - Argon
     - Argia

3. General and Cloud Oriented Network Infrastructure Services Provisioning

3.1. GEYSERS Generalised Infrastructure Services Provisioning

3.2. GEANT Virtualised Services (and Composable Services??)

3.3. ORCA-BEN: a lease-based distributed control framework

3.4. HERO (Hybrid Networking Project for Research Oriented Infrastructure)

4. Provisioning infrastructure services in Clouds

The current Cloud services implement 3 basic provisioning models: 
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and 
Software as a Service (SaaS). There are many examples of the latter two 
models, PaaS and SaaS that are typically built using existing SOA and 
Web Services or REST technologies. However, the IaaS model, if intended 
to provision user or operator manageable infrastructure services, 
requires a new type of the service delivery and operation framework what 
is discussed in this paper.

4.1. Amazon Web Services

Business model
Provided infrastructure services
Recommended practices and examples

4.2. RackSpace

4.3. Google Application Engine

5. Existing BCP documents

This section will present short summary of known BCP documents on 
infrastructure services


6. Related standards

This section will include short summary of standards related to 
infrastructure services

6.1. OGF – NSI, NML

6.2. NIST – Cloud standards

6.3. IETF

7. Existing Cloud Middleware for Infrastructure Services Provisioning

7.1. OpenNebula

7.2. OpenStack

7.3. Eucalyptus

8. Projects on Infrastructure Services Provisioning – To be discussed

9. Proposed Taxonomy and Analysis

10. Summary and Recommendations

This section will provide recommendation about using described best 
practices and solutions.

11. References

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