Co-located and Orchestrated Network Fabric (CONF): An Automated Cloud Virtual Infrastructure for Social Network Applications.

Cloud environments can provide virtualized, elastic, controllable and high-quality on-demand infrastructure services for supporting complex distributed applications. However, existing IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) solutions mainly focus on the automated integration or deployment of generic applications; they lack flexible infrastructure planning and provisioning solutions and do not have rich support for the high service quality and trustworthiness required by social network applications. This paper introduces an automated cloud virtual infrastructure solution for social network applications, called Co-located and Orchestrated Network Fabric (CONF), which was conducted in a recently funded EU H2020 project ARTICONF. CONF aims to improve the existing infrastructure support in the DevOps lifecycle of social network applications to optimize QoS performance metrics as well as ensure fast recovery in the presence of faults or performance drops.