congratulation guys On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Gabriel Beims Bräscher < gabrasc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello CloudStack community members (@dev and @users), > > This email is meant to announce the publication of a project on Github that > provides a distributed virtual machine scheduling platform that can be > easily integrated with Apache CloudStack (ACS). The project is available at > [1], you can find a detailed explanation of the idea of the project, its > aspirations, basic concepts, installation and uninstallation processes and > other information at [2]. Also, if you want to know more about the > Autonomiccs and its creators, you can access the link [3]. > > The code that was opened at Github is part of a bigger system that has the > goal of managing a cloud computing environment autonomously. All of that is > being developed and used in my Ph. D. thesis and the masters’ thesis of > some colleagues. The formalization of that component will be published at > the 12th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2016) at San Francisco > USA. > > You can see the stats of our code at [4] and [5]. Right now we only have > ~40% of code test coverage. However, we intend to increase that value to > ~60% until next week and ~90% until the end of June. > > To give you a picture of what we are preparing for the future, we can > highlight the following goals for this year (You can find others short term > goals at [6]): > > - > > Integrate our platform [1] with a multi-agent system (MAS) platform, in > order to facilitate the development of agents. Currently, we are using > Spring-integration to “emulate” and an agent life cycle; that can > become a > problem when needing to add more agents and they start to communicate > with > each other. Therefore, we will integrate the platform in [1] with JADE > [7]; > - > > Today the metrics about the use of resource are not properly gathered by > ACS; in order to develop more accurate predictions we need to store > resource usage metrics. Also, those metrics have to be gathered in a > distributed way without causing service degradation. For that and a few > other reasons (you can send us an email so we can provide you more > details), we are developing an autonomic monitoring platform that will > integrate with the system available in [1]; > - > > We also foresee the need to develop a better way to visualize the cloud > environment, a way to detect hot spots (pods and hosts) with higher > resource usage trends (VMs trends). We see the need to change the rustic > view of the environment with tables for a better suitable one for humans > (this is a surprise that we intend to present at the CCCBR). > > We hope you like the software and that it meets your expectations. If it > does not suffice all of your needs, let’s work together to improve it. If > you have any doubts or suggestions please send us an email; we will reply > it as fast as we can. Also, critics that can help us improve that platform > are very welcome. > > [1] https://github.com/Autonomiccs/autonomiccs-platform > > [2] https://github.com/Autonomiccs/autonomiccs-platform/wiki > > [3] http://autonomiccs.com.br/ > > [4] http://jenkins.autonomiccs.com.br/ > > [5] http://sonar.autonomiccs.com.br/ > > [6] https://github.com/Autonomiccs/autonomiccs-platform#project-evolution > > [7] http://jade.tilab.com/ > > > Cheers, Gabriel. > -- Daan