# Component-aware Orchestration of Cloud-based Enterprise Applications, from TOSCA to Docker and Kubernetes

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01699 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.01699/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Feb 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Responsive parallelized architecture for deploying deep learning models in production environments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.08933/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Enterprise IT is currently facing the challenge of coordinating the management of complex, multi-component applications across heterogeneous cloud platforms. Containers and container orchestrators provide a valuable solution to deploy multi-component applications over cloud platforms, by coupling the lifecycle of each application component to that of its hosting container. We hereby propose a solution for going beyond such a coupling, based on the OASIS standard TOSCA and on Docker. We indeed propose a novel approach for deploying multi-component applications on top of existing container orchestrators, which allows to manage each component independently from the container used to run it. We also present prototype tools implementing our approach, and we show how we effectively exploited them to carry out a concrete case study.