Packaging and Publishing Cloud Services
The primary reason for cloud users to access the cloud is to consume services. In an IaaS cloud, this means requesting and relinquishing infrastructure resources in a self-service fashion. In its simplest form, this could be requests for machines with preconfigured storage and network or direct requests for storage resources. A more sophisticated version of the same is a request for a set of machines with a preinstalled and preconfigured application environment. As a cloud provider, the service design is aimed at determining what to offer users through a service catalog. At its most basic, a service catalog is a listing of services from which a user can choose, thus initiating the cloud service provisioning ...

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