A configuration crawler for virtual appliances in compute clouds

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 201-209

  Menzel, Michael ^a   Klems, Markus ^a   Anh Lê, Hoàng ^a   Tai, Stefan ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compute cloud; Configuration management; Software libraries; System management; Virtual machine image

Indexed keywords

COMPUTE CLOUDS; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

METADATA; WEB SERVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84881192969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IC2E.2013.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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