Manual deployment of the application usually requires expertise both about the underlying system and the application. Automatic service deployment can improve deployment significantly by using on-demand deployment and self-healing services. To support these features this paper describes an extension the globus workspace service. This extension includes creating virtual appliances for grid services, service deployment from a repository, and influencing the service schedules by altering execution planning services, candidate set generators or information systems.
['Gabor Kecskemeti', 'Péter Kacsuk', 'Gabor Terstyanszky', 'Tamas Kiss', 'Thierry Delaitre']
Automatic Service Deployment Using Virtualisation