TOSCA Orchestrator Selection Support System

The TOSCA Orchestrator Selection Support System (TOSSS) helps you to identify which TOSCA orchestrator is the best for you. Depending on your technical expertise you should either use the questionnaire or the classification table. While the questionnaire guides you through business related criteria the classification table contains additional technical information. For details take a look at our framework.

Publication

You can find more details in our publication, see https://doi.org/10.1145/3603166.3632130.

@inproceedings{Stoetzner2023_TOSSS,
    Title = {{A Systematic Technology Review of General-Purpose Open-Source TOSCA Orchestrators}},
    Author = {St\"{o}tzner, Miles and 
        Becker, Steffen and 
        Harzenetter, Lukas and 
        Leymann, Frank and
        Weder, Benjamin and
        Breitenb\"{u}cher, Uwe and
        Kopp, Oliver and
        Klein, Kevin and
        Soldani, Jacopo},
    Year = 2023,
    Month = dec,
    Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023)},
    Publisher = {ACM},
    Address = {New York, NY, USA},
    Pages = {1--11},
    articleno = {6},
    Doi = {10.1145/3603166.3632130},
    isbn = {9798400702341},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3603166.3632130},
    numpages = {11}
}

How to Start a Development Server

yarn install    # install dependencies
yarn start      # start development server

# visit localhost:3000

How to Deploy a Release

A workflow is started on pushed to the main branch, that deploys on GitHub Pages.

How to Adjust the Framework

• adjust respective criteria in public/config/framework.yaml
• the framework is validated against the respective JSON Schema (see below)

How to Adjust an Orchestrator

• adjust respective data in public/config/classification.yaml
• the data is validated against the framework

How to Add a New Orchestrator

• add respective data to public/config/classification.yaml
• the data is validated against the framework
• add icon to public/config/img following the naming schema <orchestrator-id>-icon.png
• add logo to public/config/img following the naming schema <orchestrator-id>-logo.png

Screenshots

Landing Page

Framework

Classification

Questionnaire

JSON Schema for the Framework

{
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "id": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "name": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "categories": {
        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "id": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "name": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "criteria": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "id": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "name": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "description": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "type": {
                    "enum": [
                      "string",
                      "number",
                      "boolean",
                      "date",
                      "strings"
                    ]
                  },
                  "values": {
                    "type": "array",
                    "items": {
                      "type": "string"
                    }
                  },
                  "hidden_inside_filter": {
                    "type": "boolean"
                  },
                  "hidden_inside_table": {
                    "type": "boolean"
                  },
                  "hidden_inside_questionnaire": {
                    "type": "boolean"
                  },
                  "hidden_inside_framework": {
                    "type": "boolean"
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "id",
                  "name",
                  "description",
                  "type"
                ],
                "additionalProperties": false
              }
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "id",
            "name",
            "criteria"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "id",
      "name",
      "categories"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
  }
}

Haftungsausschluss

Dies ist ein Forschungsprototyp. Die Haftung für entgangenen Gewinn, Produktionsausfall, Betriebsunterbrechung, entgangene Nutzungen, Verlust von Daten und Informationen, Finanzierungsaufwendungen sowie sonstige Vermögens- und Folgeschäden ist, außer in Fällen von grober Fahrlässigkeit, Vorsatz und Personenschäden ausgeschlossen.

Disclaimer of Warranty

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Acknowledgements

This project is developed for the purpose of research by the Institute of Software Engineering (ISTE) and the Institute of Architecture of Application Systems (IAAS) of the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The development is partially funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) as part of the Software-Defined Car (SofDCar) project (19S21002).