Simplifying Cloud Management with Cloudless Computing

@inproceedings{10.1145/3626111.3628206,
author = {Qiu, Yiming and Kon, Patrick Tser Jern and Xing, Jiarong and Huang, Yibo and Liu, Hongyi and Wang, Xinyu and Huang, Peng and Chowdhury, Mosharaf and Chen, Ang},
title = {Simplifying Cloud Management with Cloudless Computing},
year = {2023},
isbn = {9798400704154},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628206},
doi = {10.1145/3626111.3628206},
abstract = {Cloud computing has transformed the IT industry, but managing cloud infrastructures remains a difficult task. We make a case for putting today's management practices, known as "Infrastructure-as-Code," on a firmer ground via a principled design. We call this end goal Cloudless Computing: it aims to simplify cloud infrastructure management tasks by supporting them "as-a-service," analogous to serverless computing that relieves users of the burden of managing server instances. By assisting tenants with these tasks, cloud resources will be presented to their users more readily without the undue burden of complex control. We describe the research problems by examining the typical lifecycle of today's cloud infrastructure management, and identify places where a cloudless approach will advance the state of the art.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks},
pages = {95–101},
numpages = {7},
keywords = {Infrastructure as code, cloud management},
location = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
series = {HotNets '23}
}