Dynamic Auto Scaling by means of Infrastructure as a code in Cloud Environment

Computer Engineering

Cloud Computing is an emerging technology nowadays. Scalability is an important aspect in cloud computing especially, when the demands of user changes abruptly. Auto-scaling is the strategy that has ability to adjust the available resources to meet the user demands. As the popularity and usage of cloud computing has increased, it leads to highly unpredictable demands of users. One major issue about providing automatic scalability is that it considers user-defined threshold, which cannot respond to real time internet traffic loads. In this paper, a model is proposed which includes scaling of resources by means of infrastructure as a code. This mechanism will dynamically create the high level language code to automate provisioning of resources based on availability of existing resources and user demands. Based on the code generated, the virtual machines will shrink or expand.

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