From acd2e271b30e11af5f16e6f170b248f86152dc15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: konsthol Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:38:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Whatever. --- Abstract/abstractenglish.tex | 45 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/Abstract/abstractenglish.tex b/Abstract/abstractenglish.tex index 31b3cc6..12e02cb 100644 --- a/Abstract/abstractenglish.tex +++ b/Abstract/abstractenglish.tex @@ -4,26 +4,26 @@ \noindent Today, more and more people rely on IaaS services over traditional on-premise infrastructure to provide operational support to applications, -services and business processes. This is because in this way, the costs of an -organization or business are reduced, since there is no need for an investment -on the purchase of equipment. Also, the operational costs of using IaaS -services is based on flexible billing models according to the usage (of the -offered infrastructure resources). In addition, it is possible to scale the +services and business processes. That happens because in this way, the costs of +an organization or business are reduced, since there is no need for an upfront +investment on the purchase of equipment. Also, the operational cost when using +IaaS services is based on flexible billing models according to the usage (of +the offered infrastructure resources). In addition, it is possible to scale the offered remote infrastructure, depending on the needs of the organization and the current workload of the services and applications to be supported. In this way, the responsibility for the equipment and its maintenance is transferred to third parties, while at the same a new model of trust is introduced between the user/organization and the cloud provider. The increased interest shown by -enterprises for virtualization technologies (which are a key foundation of IaaS -services) in conjunction with the rapid rise in popularity of container -technologies such as Docker, has in turn begun to drive the adoption of the -microservices architecture for application development. An architecture based -on virtualization technologies for hosting applications in cloud -infrastructures and container technologies for partitioning their functions and -thus, providing an appropriate level of performance and scalability -\footfullcite{awsMicroservices}. However, they remain vulnerable to security -issues that may affect the cloud itself and/or the technologies on which it is -based on. +enterprises when in comes to virtualization technologies (which are a key +foundation of IaaS services) in conjunction with the rapid rise in popularity +of container technologies such as Docker, has in turn begun to drive the +adoption of the microservices architecture for application development. An +architecture based on virtualization technologies for hosting applications in +cloud infrastructures and container technologies for partitioning their +functions and thus, providing an appropriate level of performance and +scalability \footfullcite{awsMicroservices}. However, the technologies in +question remain vulnerable to security issues that may affect the cloud itself +and/or the technologies on which it is based on. } @@ -38,13 +38,14 @@ manner. However, the purpose of this paper goes beyond that and moves to a practical level, proposing the solution of a tool that can implement the proposed safe use of these technologies. In particular, this tool can not only create virtual machines across multiple cloud providers but also harden them in -an automated manner. In addition, it is capable of installing on these virtual -machines the Docker container engine, which it can also harden. The main goal -of this work is to make it easier for an organization to install and configure -in an automated manner a secure, distributed environment for the deployment and -operation of a microservices application. This automation lies in the correct -configuration of the tool, which does not require any special knowledge of -technical or security issues in regard to infrastructure and operating systems. +an automated manner. In addition, it is capable of installing the Docker +container engine on these virtual machines, which it can also harden. The main +goal of this work is to make it easier for an organization to install and +configure in an automated manner a secure, distributed environment for the +deployment and operation of a microservices application. This automation lies +in the correct configuration of the tool, which does not require any special +knowledge of technical or security issues in regard to infrastructure and +operating systems. }