Enhanced cloud patterns: a case study of multi-tenancy patterns

Adewojo, A; Bass, J; Allison, Ian

Abstract

Multi-tenancy is a vital cloud computing property that enables multiple tenants of an application to be served concurrently while guaranteeing isolation between the tenants. Current cloud deployment patterns catalogue for implementing multi-tenancy lack details which make it difficult to use in deploying applications to the cloud. This paper applies our existing catalogue template to the cloud multi-tenancy patterns, in particular the tenant-isolated and dedicated component pattern. Thereafter we demonstrated its applicability with a local company software application that involved the migration of a database driven business process management system to the cloud. The result shows that: (i) there is an improvement in the structure and clarity of the cloud deployment pattern catalogue; (ii) deployment patterns can help achieve migration in less time and with realistic results; (iii) the improved catalogue helps software engineers to understand the trade-off between each pattern.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2015 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society)
• Start Date: Nov 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jan 4, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 25, 2023
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858
• Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1109/i-Society.2015.7366858
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference