OpenCloudification - CLOCO - Cloud Coock - 

There are several open-source products available that, based on the available expertise of the researchers and with limited modifications, can be quickly deployed by companies in need of a forward-looking solution. For example, several solutions exist that, for example, can do rudimentary multi-cloud management (e.g. Terraform’s Infrastructure-as-Code), but each need to be adapted to a specific situation to be useful. Translation research can be used as the baseline to lead to a continuously updated driver that can be used for multiple subjects (non-exhaustive list: container technology, CI/CD, orchestration, monitoring, tracing, management of data flows, cloud API management). Recommended technologies will include links to how this software can be optimally installed (e.g., Helm chart / K8s operator), managed, and adapted, to shield the complexity of these technologies. In addition, the project will also lead to a further understanding and appreciation of the advanced capabilities of the cloud (including capabilities not yet considered/integrated at the beginning), potentially leading to further innovations and adaptations. Through OpenCloudification, the companies will stay up-to-date with advanced cloud aspects and will come into contact with a wide range of production-ready capabilities that should allow them to both innovate in their cloud product portfolio and improve the manageability and cost efficiency of their current solution. Other topics covered (non-exhaustive list): scheduling and orchestration, service discovery and service coordination, API gateways, service meshes, cloud-native storage, cloud-native networking, automation, container/VM registries, security and rule compliance, serverless, observability, streaming and message exchange, edge/cloud orchestration, CI/CD.