WSO2 Stratos-2.0 - Cloud Controller - Part 1

What is Cloud Controller?

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...