Cloud computing has the potential to provide resources on demand changing long term infrastructure investment costs with more manageable operational costs. As cloud computing is gaining more widespread take-up by SMEs and public sector organisations, the optimised utilisation and automated auto scaling of cloud computing resources are also gaining increased importance.

If you are working as a Business Operational Level Staff, Business Decider, IT Expert or IT Decider, don't miss the webinar! Besides, it is also addressed to Digital Innovation Hubs to inform them about the options and benefits that MiCADOscale has for their network of SMEs. Therefore DIHs are particularly encouraged to participate.

• When: February 17, 2020, at 15:00 CET.

• Where: Online at GoToMeeting - the link will be sent to attendees.

What is auto-scaling and what can auto-scaling do for me?

But what exactly is auto-scaling? One example: If checkout lines at a store get too long, the store manager will open up new cash registers. When traffic piles up, the auto-scaling feature detects the increased load and launches new servers / containers from the cloud accordingly, and then spreads the load to them. Hence, cloud-based auto-scaling increases your application's reliability and speed and will help you save time and costs.

MiCADOscale Framework - security, scalability and automation

MiCADOscale, which will be introduced in this webinar, is an open source-based auto scaling framework, based on Kubernetes (K8) that supports cloud application developers and data centres when developing, deploying and operating scalable cloud applications. MiCADOscale provides highly customisable and programmable scaling policies at various (virtual machine and container) levels, and a standardised TOSCA-based application and policy description. Based on its audited security features, you can run and scale your application in almost every cloud in a secure and efficient manner. MiCADOscale was developed in the EU funded COLA project primarily by the University of Westminster and Sztaki and marketed and commercialised by cloudSME. This webinar will explain the motivations behind using an autoscaling and automated deployment and run-time orchestration framework for businesses and will highlight how MiCADOscale fulfils such role.

Components utilised in the MiCADO framework

Docker Engine, Kubernetes, Occopus (to scale VMs), Prometheus (for monitoring), COLA in-house developed Policy Keeper (to perform decision on scaling), and Submitter (to provide submission endpoint).