nmaiti / pycloud

Server software to manage virtualized services on a KVM-based discoverable cloudlet (Cloudlet Server component of the KD-Cloudlet.project)

pycloud

pycloud is the Python-based Cloudlet Server component of KD-Cloudlet, an infrastructure for VM-based cyber-foraging. The three main components of pycloud are:

• Cloudlet API: runtime component that manages computation offload requests from mobile devices. It includes capabilities to provide cloudlet metadata to cloudlet clients for use in cloudlet selection algorithms.
• Cloudlet Manager: web-based application for visualizing and managing Service VMs on a cloudlet
  • Service VM creation, edit and deletion
  • Service VM import and export
  • Service VM instance start, stop and migration
  • Cloudlet-ready app repository (i.e., app store)
• Discovery Service: cloudlet broadcast mechanism based on zeroconf

Cloudlets are discoverable, generic, stateless servers located in single-hop proximity of mobile devices, that can operate in disconnected mode and are virtual-machine (VM) based to promote flexibility, mobility, scalability, and elasticity. In our implementation of cloudlets, applications are statically partitioned into a very thin client that runs on the mobile device and a computation-intensive Server that runs inside a Service VM. Read more about cloudlets at http://sei.cmu.edu/mobilecomputing/research/tactical-cloudlets/.

KD-Cloudlet comprises a total of 7 GitHub projects:

• pycloud (Cloudlet Server)
• cloudlet-client (Cloudlet Client)
• client-lib-android (Library for Cloudlet-Ready Apps)
• client-lib (Java REST Client Library)
• android-logger (SLF4J Logger for Android)
• speech-server (Test server: Speech Recognition Server based on Sphinx)
• speech-android (Test client: Speech Recognition Client)

Packaging and installation instructions are available at https://github.com/SEI-AMS/pycloud/wiki

Project Contents

• debian/: files needed to create a .deb installer.
• discovery/: configuration files to enable Cloudlet discovery through avahi-daemon.
• libusb/: configuration files needed to enable USB communication.
• pycloud/: the actual code for the Cloudlet Manager and API.
• radius/: configuration files needed for FreeRADIUS to auto-reload when certain configurations change.
• scripts/: scripts for setting up the environment for development. full_dev_setup.sh is the main one. Execute this way from inside the scripts/ folder: "bash full_dev_setup.sh" (do NOT call with sudo). NOTE: these scripts assume Ubuntu 14.0.4 or higher is being used.
• testing/: some test scripts.
• tls/: scripts to set up a CA and to set up scripts for libvirt.
• upstart/: Upstart script configurations for the Manager and API services.
• bootstrap.py: script for starting the server while developing (called by bash script below).
• dev_tips.txt: some hints for developing parts of the system.
• development_api.ini: config file used while developing the API.
• development_manager.ini: config file used while developing the Manager.
• pycloud_api.ini: API config file used when installing the server.
• pycloud_manager.ini: Manager config file used when installing the server.
• LICENSE: license for this software.
• MANIFEST.in, requirements.txt and setup.py: config files for creating the egg for this python package.
• README.md this file.
• start_dev_api.sh: script to start API when developing, after env has been set up.
• start_dev_manager.sh: script to start Manager when developing, after env has been set up.