A RESTful Approach to the Management of Cloud Infrastructure

Abstract

Recently, REpresentational State Transfer (REST) has been proposed as an alternative architecture for Web services.In the era of Cloud and Web 2.0, many complex Web service-based systems such as e-Business an de-Government applications have adopted REST. Unfortunately, the REST approach has been applied to few cases in management systems, especially for a management system for cloud computing infrastructures.In this paper, we design and implement a RESTful Cloud Management System (CMS).Managed elements can be modeled as resources in REST and operations in existing systems can be evaluated using four methods of REST or a combination of them.We also show how components of existing management systems can be realized as REST-style Web services.