A Cloud Automation Platform for Flexibility in Applications and Resources Provisioning

Cloud technologies are still characterized by critical issues, which pose specific challenges for application developers and operators. In particular cloud application-level and infrastructure-level are completely decoupled both in the development and runtime phases leading in poor QoS cloud services. Main issues related to the optimize the use of the hardware resources are partially solve with virtualization technologies but innovative methodology in the automatic management of resources, applications provisioning and deployment are urgently needed. This paper presents ALM Automation Platform over CHEF framework in context of services virtualization for Public Administration where typically a large number of technologies heterogeneous resources, applications are deployed and managed.