Distributed Hybrid Cloud Management Platform Based On Rule Engine

In the past few years, there has been a rapid growth in cloud computing, especially IaaS. It's a trend to use hybrid clouds that incorporate components of private and public clouds in order to achieve lower cost, higher availability and better security. Enterprises could get the benefits from it, including high elasticity, efficiency, flexibility, etc. In the meantime, they are faced with a set of challenges in cloud management. However, previous researches have primarily focused on single cloud platform, with lack of efficient management of hybrid clouds. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a distributed hybrid cloud management platform based on rule engine. We design a succinct rule model to define rules and events. Combined with a distributed and reliable architecture, the demands of batch processing, automatic operation could be met, which make it more flexible and efficient to manage cloud resources from multiple IaaS cloud providers.