Use Case: Compute Cloud

• Name: Compute Cloud
• Contact: Michael Behrens, R2AD.
• Description: A cloud provider implements a RESTful API for provisioning, executing, and monitoring of tasks.
• Functional Requirements
  • Secure: API must be secured to ensure that only authorized identities are permitted to use the API.
  • Resource: An endpoint must be created for external monitoring, status, and auditing of the task. This endpoint would be responsive to RESTful calls supporting AJAX and other clients.
  • Scripted: The target system needs to understand and process directives which would be provided with the task. These directives would include the ability to pull binaries or data onto the system, run executables, and status the system resources.
• Non-functional Requirements
  • Single Compute Method: The resultant service should be the same service that can be used for many other purposes. It could be used for monitoring of system health, system life-cycle management, system patching, and configuration changes. If this was the only service on the system initially, it could then be used to build up the other services in a plug-in manner.