The CloudLightning approach to cloud-user interaction

Deploying applications which require computational power or data intensive capabilities into a cloud environment might became overwhelming, due to the diversity of cloud services and resources. CloudLightning allows users to design their application topology and deploy it without the need for selecting the most suitable resources. The task of finding the resources for an application is taken care of by the CloudLightning self-organizing self-management component. In this paper we describe the functionality of the Gateway Service, the component that enables users to access the CloudLightning functionality.