This document is the main high-level architecture specification of the
SUNFISH cloud federation solution. Its main objective is to introduce the
concept of Federation-as-a-Service (FaaS) and the SUNFISH platform. FaaS is the
new and innovative cloud federation service proposed by the SUNFISH project.
The document defines the functionalities of FaaS, its governance and precise
objectives. With respect to these objectives, the document proposes the
high-level architecture of the SUNFISH platform: the software architecture that
permits realising a FaaS federation. More specifically, the document describes
all the components forming the platform, the offered functionalities and their
high-level interactions underlying the main FaaS functionalities. The document
concludes by outlining the main implementation strategies towards the actual
implementation of the proposed cloud federation solution.Comment: Technical Report Edited by Francesco Paolo Schiavo, Vladimiro
Sassone, Luca Nicoletti and Andrea Margher
