Unification of communication interfaces for portability in the multi-cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which provides high service availability, high scalability as well as low usage costs. This has encouraged enterprises and individual users to embrace cloud technology. However, the lack of service interoperability and portability (also known as the vendor lock-in) issue persists. The vendor lock-in is caused by the cloud service providers who aim to prevent the clients from switching to other clouds or providers, resulting from the diversity of protocols and the absence of a naming convention along with Api’s unified structure. Our goal is to provide a solution for these challenges that face the emergence of the multicloud, the solution will target SOAP and REST APIs and perform the transformation from REST to SOAP and vice versa along with unified web description language. Our system will play the role of broker because it will be in the middle of the data exchange of microservices from different cloud providers and give them the proper transformation of both format and data wise along with preserving the data sent end received. This solution will help escape vendor lock-in along with giving cloud users the best experience by giving them the freedom to choose any service provider they want. Keywords : SOAP, REST, WSDL, WADL, Semantic web , Cloud , Multicloud, Web description languages.