Increasing trust in the cloud through configuration validation

Abstract

Cloud scenarios are a flexible and scalable solution for the creation, provisioning and consumption of services. Service providers and consumers typically decide and negotiate requirements for their services. However, as these are operated by the cloud platform, consumers have a reduced visibility on the actual fullfillement of the requirements. To increase their trust in the cloud, this paper proposes an approach for configuration validation that relies on a standard based language and adapts to the dynamic nature of cloud environments.