Securely and Automatically Deploying Micro-services in an Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Modern cloud-based services help deliver distributed software and aim to deliver a cost-effective solution while ensuring that application requirements are met. Deploying a Cloud-based implementation demands the resolution of a resource allocation problem to determine where and how software modules are deployed. For instance, one must decide, for each module, whether to deploy on a commercial elastic cloud provider or an in-house data-center as well as how to secure the communication channels that exist between services hosted with different providers. Each application is a collection of communicating micro-services that provides load-balancing and fault-tolerance to ensure quality of service requirements. There exists many choices as to what to deploy, where and which communication technologies to use. The purpose of this paper is to simultaneously solve the deployment of software services, the selection of suitable technologies for communication channels to meet the functional, performance and security requirements while minimizing economic costs.