Service Engineering description and its products description.

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CeBIT 2016
Hurtle & Cyclops : Results of MCN
https://blog.zhaw.ch/icclab/

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Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN)
An EU FP7 Project
MCN is an Integration of
● Radio Access Network
● Mobile Core Network
● Data Centre (computing, storage, applications) into
(decentralised) cloud computing infrastructure
Advantages : elasticity, costs, performance, e.g., by exploitation of
user location for service provisioning

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Mobile Cloud Networking - Motivation
An EU FP7 Project

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Mobile Cloud Networking - Vision
An EU FP7 Project

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Mobile Cloud Networking - Partners
An EU FP7 Project

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Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
An ICCLab’s Open-Source Orchestration Framework
Result of MCN - EU FP7 Project

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Software Orchestration : The Challenge
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
• How to monetise your software?
• Deliver your software as a service?
• How to compose existing services?
• How deliver and maintain reliability?

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What is Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
offer your software as a service i.e.
"hurtle it!”
How ?
● Automate the life-cycle management of your service,
from deployment to disposal
● Recursive service composition

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What is Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
● truly modular cloud service composition! In
short, hurtle enables:
● service and infrastructure orchestration to
easily compose, deploy, provision and manage
distributed systems
● with Cloud-Native Application in mind.

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Orchestration Lifecycle of Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework

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Features of Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
● Complete orchestration of your software lifecycle
● Easy implementation of your service API - See how to write your Hurtle Service
● Guided implementation of your service manager
○ Many languages supported including Python, Java, Perl, PHP
○ Demo applications available
● Scalable runtime management
● Complete end-to-end logging of your software
● Integration with OpenStack, Joyent Triton, Apache CloudStack
● Handle potential incidents of your software
○ On-Going Integration with ICCLab's Watchtower (Cloud Incident Management)
● Bill for your software and services
○ Integration with ICCLab's Cyclops (Rating, charging & Billing)

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Features of Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
● Leverages Open Cloud Standards (OCCI, OpenStack)
● Multi-dc/multi-region support
● Service Placement - cost and latency
● Enhanced workload placement, policy-based
○ cost and latency
● Support for docker-registry deployed containers: OpenShift v3
● Runtime updates to service and resource topologies
● CI/CD support
○ safe, monitored dynamic service updates
● Support for VMware and CloudStack
● Compatible with ETSI NFV
● Integration with OpenBaton

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Key Components of Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
• Service Manager (SM): receives requests for new tenant service
instances
• https://github.com/icclab/hurtle_sm
• Service Orchestrator (SO): manages the lifecycle of a tenant service
instance
• https://github.com/icclab/hurtle_sample_so
• CloudController (CC): manages and abstracts underlying resources and
SOs
• https://github.com/icclab/hurtle_cc_api

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Links - Hurtle
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
GitHub: https://github.com/icclab/hurtle
● Architecture
● Implementation
● Write your own service
Website: http://hurtle.it/
Twitter: @hurtle_it
Mailing List: icclab-hurtle@dornbirn.zhaw.ch
Advanced Service Composition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=03YiBT3IM9s

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Upcoming Feature Releases
Open-Source Orchestration Framework
Feature, delivery date
● Integration of SFC (SDN) ← April
○ via Heat
● Service migration (applied to RCB) ← April
● TOSCA Support ← May
● VNF-D Support (SDN) ← June
● Orchestration without SM ← August
○ Look to remove heat/openstack dependencies
○ Leverage MITOSIS (CNA)
● Extend the performance dashboard ← October
● Iteration of hurtle components ← November
○ Leverage Clad (PaaS)
● User interface to visualise resource and services relationships
● Additional external service endpoint protocol support
● CC Integration with CloudFoundry
● More examples including the cloud native Zurmo implementation from ICCLab

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Cyclops
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
An ICCLab’s Open-Source Generic Rating-Charging-Billing
Framework
Result of MCN - EU FP7 Project

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What is Cyclops
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
You have a thriving business and
a catalog of cloud based service
offerings ...
How to monetise your software?
❖ a generic rule based rating engine,
charging and billing framework to
optimize your revenue streams!
Cyclops provides you with this capability -
quickly execute your pricing strategies
according to the changing business
environment!

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Features of Cyclops
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
● highly modular architecture - extendible as needed
● native support for popular cloud frameworks
○ OpenStack (Liberty), CloudStack.
● programmable - REST APIs for integration with CRM
suites and product marketplaces
● rule engine driven workflow - you implement any rating,
pricing, charging strategy!

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Features of Cyclops
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
● powerful prediction engine
○ enables predictions and projections using historical
data
● rich dashboard with data visualization support
● supports RBAC - through Gatekeeper
● support for revenue sharing between multiple
stakeholders (resellers, distributors, etc.)

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Cyclops microservices architecture
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
Scan this QR Code to
get more info on
Cyclops
★ Get Cyclops UDR at - https://github.
com/icclab/cyclops-udr
★ Get Cyclops RC at - https://github.
com/icclab/cyclops-rc
★ Get Cyclops Billing at - https://github.
com/icclab/cyclops-billing
★ Get Cyclops Dashboard at - https://github.
com/icclab/cyclops-dashboard
★ Get Cyclops Prediction Engine at - https:
//github.com/icclab/cyclops-prediction

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Cyclops Dashboard: Highlights
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
custom meter selection for setting up
pricing strategies to bill end users
prediction of usage and cost
parameters to aid users and
administrators

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Links - Cyclops
Open-Source Rating-Charging-Billing Framework
GitHub: http://icclab.github.io/cyclops/
Mailing List: icclab-rcb-cyclops@dornbirn.zhaw.ch
Cyclops in action:
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqsX_fHJq5Y
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7StbnpfU1xY

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SI Special Interest Group Cloud
Computing (SI SIG CC)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert,
President
Professor, ZHAW
eMail: thomas.bohnert@zhaw.ch
web: blog.zhaw.ch/icclab

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SI SIG CC - Introduction & Goals
● SI Fachgruppe Cloud Computing - http://www.
cloudcomp.ch/
● Formed in February 2013
● Core team - 18 members, Total members - 83
Promote the understanding, the application, and the
development of Cloud Computing in the Industry, Education
and the Research section

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SI SIG CC - Core Team

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Service Engineering
Research Area in School of Engineering, ZHAW

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Service Engineering
Research Area in School of Engineering, ZHAW
Research Area in School of Engineering, ZHAW
Founded in 2012
Lead by Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert
Team size - 25 people
Labs
● InIT Cloud Computing Lab
● Service Prototyping Lab

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Service Engineering
Research Area in School of Engineering, ZHAW
Themes
● Infrastructure as a Service
● Platform as a Service
● Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing
● Pervasive Services
● Service Based Applications

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Service Engineering
Research Area in School of Engineering, ZHAW
Contacts:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Michael Bohnert
Technikumstrasse 9
Winterthur 8401, Switzerland
eMail: thomas.bohnert@zhaw.ch
web: blog.zhaw.ch/icclab

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Thank you!