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\noindent Today, more and more people rely on IaaS services over traditional \noindent Today, more and more people rely on IaaS services over traditional
on-premise infrastructure to provide operational support to applications, on-premise infrastructure to provide operational support to applications,
services and business processes. This is because in this way, the costs of an services and business processes. That happens because in this way, the costs of
organization or business are reduced, since there is no need for an investment an organization or business are reduced, since there is no need for an upfront
on the purchase of equipment. Also, the operational costs of using IaaS investment on the purchase of equipment. Also, the operational cost when using
services is based on flexible billing models according to the usage (of the IaaS services is based on flexible billing models according to the usage (of
offered infrastructure resources). In addition, it is possible to scale the the offered infrastructure resources). In addition, it is possible to scale the
offered remote infrastructure, depending on the needs of the organization and offered remote infrastructure, depending on the needs of the organization and
the current workload of the services and applications to be supported. In this 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 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 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 user/organization and the cloud provider. The increased interest shown by
enterprises for virtualization technologies (which are a key foundation of IaaS enterprises when in comes to virtualization technologies (which are a key
services) in conjunction with the rapid rise in popularity of container foundation of IaaS services) in conjunction with the rapid rise in popularity
technologies such as Docker, has in turn begun to drive the adoption of the of container technologies such as Docker, has in turn begun to drive the
microservices architecture for application development. An architecture based adoption of the microservices architecture for application development. An
on virtualization technologies for hosting applications in cloud architecture based on virtualization technologies for hosting applications in
infrastructures and container technologies for partitioning their functions and cloud infrastructures and container technologies for partitioning their
thus, providing an appropriate level of performance and scalability functions and thus, providing an appropriate level of performance and
\footfullcite{awsMicroservices}. However, they remain vulnerable to security scalability \footfullcite{awsMicroservices}. However, the technologies in
issues that may affect the cloud itself and/or the technologies on which it is question remain vulnerable to security issues that may affect the cloud itself
based on. and/or the technologies on which it is based on.
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practical level, proposing the solution of a tool that can implement the 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 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 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 an automated manner. In addition, it is capable of installing the Docker
machines the Docker container engine, which it can also harden. The main goal container engine on these virtual machines, which it can also harden. The main
of this work is to make it easier for an organization to install and configure goal of this work is to make it easier for an organization to install and
in an automated manner a secure, distributed environment for the deployment and configure in an automated manner a secure, distributed environment for the
operation of a microservices application. This automation lies in the correct deployment and operation of a microservices application. This automation lies
configuration of the tool, which does not require any special knowledge of in the correct configuration of the tool, which does not require any special
technical or security issues in regard to infrastructure and operating systems. knowledge of technical or security issues in regard to infrastructure and
operating systems.
} }