Cloud Controller plays a vital role in Stratos 2.0 and here I list its capabilities and duties.
WSO2 Cloud Controller,
- is acting as a bridge between application level and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) level via Jclouds API.
- enables your system to scale across multiple IaaS providers.
- is the central location where the service topology resides.
- is responsible for sharing the up-to-date service topology among other Stratos 2.0 core services, periodically.
- supports hot update and deployment of its configuration files.
- has inbuilt support for AWS EC2 IaaS provider and Openstack Nova IaaS provider.
- enables you to cloud burst your system across multiple IaaS providers.
- allows you to plug an implementation of any IaaS provider supports by jclouds, very easily.
- enables you to spawn new service instances, while associating a public IP automatically, in order to reduce the instance boot-up time.
- enables you to terminate an already started instance of a particular service cluster.
- can be configured to cover many scenarios, using its well-thought-out configuration files.
Awaits the next post on Cloud Controller's SOAP Service Interface...
