A DSL for Multi-Scale and Autonomic Software Deployment

Abstract

In this paper, we present an ongoing work which aims at defining and experimenting a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) dedicated to multi-scale and autonomic software deployment. Autonomic software deployment in open environments is an open issue. There, the topology of target hosts is not always known due either to unforeseen hardware failures or limitations (network links, hosts, etc.) or to device arrival and disappearance. In a previous work, we proposed to describe deployment constraints using a DSL and then to satisfy them using a middleware for autonomic deployment, rather than classically building and executing a deployment plan. As deployment of multi-scale distributed systems demands the expression of specific constraints related to dimensions and scales, it is necessary to think over and define a new Domain-Specific Language. In this paper, we propose a new DSL designed to support the expression of constraints and properties related to multi-scale and autonomic software deployment.