RT Journal Article
T1 Understanding the challenges and novel architectural models of multi-cloud native applications – a systematic literature review
A1 Alonso, Juncal
A1 Orue-Echevarria, Leire
A1 Casola, Valentina
A1 Torre, Ana Isabel
A1 Huarte, Maider
A1 Osaba, Eneko
A1 Lobo, Jesus L.
AB The evolution of Cloud Computing into a service utility, along with the pervasive adoption of the IoT paradigm, has promoted a significant growth in the need of computational and storage services. The traditional use of cloud services, focused on the consumption of one provider, is not valid anymore due to different shortcomings being the risk of vendor lock-in a critical. We are assisting to a change of paradigm, from the usage of a single cloud provider to the combination of multiple cloud service types, affecting the way in which applications are designed, developed, deployed and operated over such heterogeneous ecosystems. The result is an effective heterogeneity of architectures, methods, tools, and frameworks, copying with the multi-cloud application concept. The goal of this study is manifold. Firstly, it aims to characterize the multi-cloud concept from the application development perspective by reviewing existing definitions of multi-cloud native applications in the literature. Secondly, we set up the basis for the architectural characterization of these kind of applications. Finally, we highlight several open research issues drawn up from the analysis carried out. To achieve that, we have conducted a systematic literature review (SLR), where, a large set of primary studies published between 2011 and 2021 have been studied and classified. The in-depth analysis has revealed five main research trends for the improvement of the development and operation DevOps lifecycle of “multi-cloud native applications”. The paper finishes with directions for future work and research challenges to be addressed by the software community.
SN 2192-113X
YR 2023
FD 2023-12
LA eng
NO Alonso , J , Orue-Echevarria , L , Casola , V , Torre , A I , Huarte , M , Osaba , E & Lobo , J L 2023 , ' Understanding the challenges and novel architectural models of multi-cloud native applications – a systematic literature review ' , Journal of Cloud Computing , vol. 12 , no. 1 , 6 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-022-00367-6
NO Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
NO This work has been partially funded by the European projects DECIDE (Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement 731533), PIACERE (Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme, under grant agreement no 101000162), MEDINA (Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme, under grant agreement no 952633), from the University of Naples Federico II (Finanziamento delle Ricerca di Ateneo 2020) and SwForum.eu (Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme, under grant agreement no 957044).
DS TECNALIA Publications
RD 28 sept 2024