ATMOSPHERE: Adaptive, Trustworthy, Manageable, Orchestrated, Secure, Privacy-Assuring, Hybrid Ecosystem for Resilient Cloud Computing

This paper describes the goals of the ATMOSPHERE project, which is a multi-institutional research and development (R&D) effort aiming at designing and implementing a framework and platform to develop, build, deploy, measure and evolve trustworthy, cloud-enabled applications. The proposed system addresses the federation of geographically distributed cloud computing providers that rely on lightweight virtualization, and provide access to heterogeneous sets of resources. In addition, the system also considers both classic trustworthiness properties from the systems community, such as dependability and security, and from the machine learning community, such as fairness and transparency. We present the architecture that has been proposed to address these challenges and discuss some preliminary results.