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Part A: Content Development Plan

Course Title Cloud Computing

Course No(s) SE * ZG527

Credit Units 5

1-2-2, (total 5 units or credits) ie 1 unit for class room hours, 2 unit for lab
hours, 2 units for student preparation.

Typically 1 unit translates to 32 hours

Document Version V5
No

Date 27th June 2015 / 07th Aug 2015/ 12th Jan 2016/02nd Feb 2017/

13th Nov 2017

Content Development Team

Name email mobile

Lead Chandra Shekar RK Chandrashekar.rk@pila 9986489685

Developer ni.bits-pilani.ac.in

Co-Developer Nayan Khare [email protected] 9886672847

ts-pilani.ac.in
Text Book(s)

T1 Dinkar Sitaram and Geetha Manjunath. Moving to the Cloud. Syngress (Elsevier) Pub, 2011

T2 Rajkumar Buyya, James Broburg & Anderzej M.G, Cloud Computing – Principles and
Paradigms. John Wiley Pub, 2011

Reference Book(s) & other resources

R1 Cloud Computing bible by Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley Publishers, 2010

R2 Virtualization A Beginner’s guide, Danielle Ruest, Nelson Ruest, TMH, 2009

R3 Cloud Computing bible by Barrie Sosinsky, Wiley Publishers, 2010

R4 Cloud security, a comprehensive guide to secure cloud computing, by Ronald L.Krutz et al, Wiley
Publishers, 2010
Learning Outcomes:

No Learning Outcomes

LO1 Explain the core concepts of the cloud computing paradigm: how and why this
paradigm shift came about, the characteristics, advantages and challenges brought
about by the various models and services in cloud computing

LO2 Apply the fundamental concepts in data-centres to understand the tradeoffs in power,
efficiency and cost

LO3 Discuss system virtualization and outline its role in enabling the cloud computing
system model.

LO4 Illustrate the fundamental concepts of cloud storage and demonstrate their use in
storage systems such as Amazon S3 and HDFS

LO5 Analyze various cloud programming models and apply them to solve problems on the
cloud

Note to Faculty:

Some modules or topics are specific only to certain programmes. The faculty is
instructed to choose the relevant topics/modules depending on the programme in
which this course is being offered. Same needs to be reflected in the contact
session plan.
# Specific to MTech, CSI (Computing Systems & Infrastructure)

* Specific to MTech (SW Systems) and MTech (SW Engg)

Documentation on Labwork

1. Software(s) or Tool(s) required: Virtual Box, KVM on Ubuntu, Hyper V,

Openstack, AWS, Salesforce, Proxmox or ConVirt, Hadoop Harton
Sandbox
2. Dependencies/Pre-requistes (OS, SDK, other framework, etc)
3. System Requirements: Any System with Processor better or equal to i3
intel. Min 4GB RAM (Recommended 8GB or more)
4. Download url:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
www.devstack.org
https://aws.amazon.com/console/
https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve
https://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php
http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworks-sandbox/
5. Capabilities of tool:
6. Mode of working (GUI based- Stand alone installer/ Client Server /
Console based/ Browser based): All types
7. Open source/ Freeware/ Proprietary: Opensource/Freeware
8. If Proprietary, any open source or freeware alternative available If yes,
provide details (Limitations)
9. Any Other Remarks
10. Objective behind Labwork in this course: Understand and have
hands on knowledge on technologies related to Cloud computing
Glossary of Terms

Module M Module is a standalone quantum of designed content.

A typical course is delivered using a string of modules.
M2 means module 2.

Recorded RL A recorded lecture will consist of a sequence of topic

Lecture recordings (typically less 10 minutes each). There will
be assessments between topic recordings to allow the
learner test his/her understanding of video material
previously viewed.
RL2.1 = Recorded Lecture 1 in module 2.
RL2.2.3 = Third topic recording in recorded lecture
RL2.1

Contact CS Contact session topics refers to topics in form of

session concepts, discussions items, problems which will be
sub- taken up by the course instructor during the contact
module/topi hours. A contact hours is built by stringing a bunch of
cs contact session topics.
CS3.2 = Contact session sub-module 2 associated
with module 3
 CS3.2.1 = Contact session topic 1 associated with
contact session sub-module 2 within module 1

Lab LE Lab exercises associated with various modules

Exercises

Self-Study SS Specific content assigned for self study

Homework HW Specific problems/design/lab exercises assigned as

homework
Modular Structure
Module Summary
No Title of the Module
M1 Introduction to Cloud Computing
 Cloud Computing, services, deployment models
M2 Virtualization Techniques and Types

M3 Infrastructure as a Service
Managing Virtual Resources on the Cloud
M4 Platform as a Service and SaaS

M5 Containers

M6 Capacity management and Scheduling in cloud computing

M7 Issues and Challenges : Availability, Multi-Tenancy, Security and SLA

M8 Distributed File System (DFS) and Hadoop

Contact List of Topic Title Topic # Text/Ref Book/external

Hour (from content structure in Part A) (from content resource
structure in Part
A)

1 1.1. Cloud Computing, services, Already Part of T1: Ch1

deployment models list in Column T2: Ch1
1.2. Introduction to Cloud Computing 2(List of Topic
1.3. Origins and Motivation Title)

2 1.4. Types of Clouds and Services T1: Ch1

1.5. Cloud Infrastructure and T2: Ch1
Deployment

3 2. Virtualization Techniques and T1: Ch9

Types
2.1. Introduction to Virtualization
2.2. Use & demerits of Virtualization

4 2.3. Types of Virtualization T1: Ch9

2.4. Examples

5 2.5. x86 Hardware Virtualization T1: Ch9

6 2.6. Manage the resources for the T1: Ch9

SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models

7 3. Infrastructure as a Service T1: Ch2

 3.1. Introduction to IaaS
3.2. IaaS examples
3.3. Reference Model of AWS

8 3.4. Amazon cloud services - T1: Ch2

Compute, Database, Storage
3.5. Region Vs Availability zones

9 3.6. Case Study - Openstack http://

OR www.slashroot.in/
Amazon Cloud Services - EC2, S3, openstack-tutorial-
SimpleDB, RDS getting-started-basics-
building-your-own-cloud

10 3.6. Case Study - Openstack http://

OR docs.openstack.org/
Amazon Cloud Services - CloudFront,
Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Block
Storage

11 3.7. Managing Virtual Resources on T2: Ch5

the Cloud: Provisioning and Migration
3.7.1. Virtual Machine Provisioning and
Manageability
3.7.2. VM Provisioning Process

12 3.7.3. Virtual Machine Migration T2: Ch5

Services
3.7.4. Migrations Techniques
3.7.5. VM Provisioning and Migration in
action

13 4. Containers (New) https://

4.1. Linux Containers - LXC and LXD linuxcontainers.org/lxc/
introduction/

https://
access.redhat.com/
documentation/en-us/
red_hat_enterprise_linux
_atomic_host/7/html/
overview_of_containers_
in_red_hat_systems/
introduction_to_linux_co
ntainers

14 4.2. Dockers - Elements, Images, Files, https://docs.docker.com/

Containers get-started/
more focus on
1: Orientation
2: Containers
3. Services

15 4.2. Dockers - Files, Containers https://

docs.docker.com/get-
 started/

16 4.3Cloud orchestration technologies https://www.ibm.com/

developerworks/cloud/
library/cl-cloud-
orchestration-technologies-
trs/index.html

17 5. Platform as a Service T1: Ch3

5.1. Introduction to PaaS
5.2. PaaS examples

18 5.3. Windows Azure T1: Ch3

19 5.4. 5 Principles of UI Design - AWS T1: Ch3

PaaS

20 5.5 Introduction to SaaS T1: Ch4

5.6 Pros and Cons of SaaS model

21 6. Capacity management and T2: Ch6

Scheduling in cloud computing
6.1. Capacity management and
Scheduling

22 6.2. Distributed management of T2: Ch6

virtual machines
6.3. Reservation-based provisioning of
virtualized resource

23 6.4. Provisioning to meet SLA T2: Ch6

commitments

24 6.5. Stages of VM life cycle within T1: Ch6

OpenNebula
6.6. Network model for OpenNebula

25 7. Issues and Challenges : T1: Ch6

Availability, Multi-Tenancy, Security and
SLA
7.1. Multi-Tenancy, 4 levels of multi
tenancy
7.2. Multi-tenant models for cloud

26 7.3. Introduction to cloud security T1: Ch 7

7.4. Cloud security Issues T2: Ch 23
7.5. Threat Model
7.6. Top 5 cloud security threats

27 7.7. who is responsible for managing T2: Ch16

security
7.8. Service License Agreements:
Lifecycle and Management
7.9. Traditional approaches to SLO
management
28 7.10. SLA Management in Cloud T2: Ch16
7.11. Automated Policy based T1: Ch8
management
7.12. Managing Clouds: Services and
Infrastructure

29 8. Distributed File System (DFS) and https://

Hadoop hadoop.apache.org/
8.1. Introduction to Distributed File docs/r1.2.1/
System (DFS) hdfs_design.html
8.2. Case Study HDFS

30 8.3. Hadoop components and

importance of MapReduce http://
8.4 Setting started - Amazon EMR docs.aws.amazon.com/
8.7 Understanding MapReduce emr/latest/
ManagementGuide/emr-
what-is-emr.html

31 8.5. Amazon EMR - Plan and Configure http://

clusters (# only for CSI) docs.aws.amazon.com/
8.6. AMazon EMC - Manage Clusters (# emr/latest/
only for CSI) ManagementGuide/emr-
what-is-emr.html

32 8.8. Explore word count Java program T1: Ch3,5

8.9. MapReduce Facts T2:Ch14
Detailed Structure
Video: Introduction to the course.

M1: Introduction to Cloud Computing

Type Title Description

RL1.1 Cloud Computing, Motivation

services, Evolution of Web
deployment Technology Advances
models What is Cloud Computing?
Drivers for the new Platform
Cloud Summary

RL1.2 3-4-5 Rule of CC Cloud Computing: Definition

3-4-5 rule of Cloud Computing
5-Characteristics of Cloud Computing
4-Deployment Models

RL1.3 3-4-5 Rule of CC 3 Cloud Service Models

Cloud Providers Software as a Service (SaaS)
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Cloud Infrastructures
Cloud Providers Characteristics
Management of Virtualized Resources
Cloud OS

CS1.1 Cloud Computing, Introduction to Cloud Computing

services Origins and Motivation

CS 1.2 Deployment Types of Clouds and Services

models Cloud Infrastructure and Deployment

LE1.1

SS1.1 Merits and Demerits of CC

HW1.1 Make a list of Public, Private, Hybrid clouds available in the IT space

QZ1.1

M2: Virtualization Techniques and Types

Dockers

Type Title Description

RL2.1 Virtualization Importance of Virtualization in Cloud Computing

What is Virtualization
What does Virtualization do?
Changes after Virtualization
Virtualization Architecture

RL2.2 Hypervisor Hypervisor

 Hypervisor Design Goals
How Hypervisor goals are achieved?
Monolithic versus Microkernelized
CPU Sharing
Memory Sharing
IO Sharing

RL2.3 Types of Approaches for Virtualization

Virtualization Full Virtualization
ParaVirtualization
SKI Virtualization
x86 Hardware Virtualization
Advantages of Virtualization
Issues to be aware of Virtualization
Applications of Virtualization

RL_2_5 Lab Demo Check Virtualization Support

RL_2_6 Lab Demo Oracle Virtual Box

RL_2_7 Lab Demo Hyper-V

CS2.1 Virtualization Types of Virtualization

Types Advantages of Virtualization
Issues to be aware of Virtualization

CS2.2 Managing Virtual Manage the resources for the SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models
Resources on the Dockers
Cloud

LE2.1 Go through RL 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 and solve exercise in Lab sheet 1

SS2.1 Study: KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, VirtualBox

HW2.1 Exercise on Docker Container

QZ2.1

M3: Infrastructure as a Service

Managing Virtual Resources on the Cloud

Type Title Description

RL3.1 IaaS Key concepts of IaaS

Two primary facets that make IaaS special
The value of IaaS

RL3.2 AWS Amazon Web Services

AWS infrastructure services
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Infrastructure Services

RL3.3 Openstack - Openstack overview

CaseStudy Openstack Components
 Nova, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Cinder, Neutron, Glance
Conceptual Architecture

RL3.4 Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Provisioning and Manageability Life Cycle
Provisioning VM Provisioning Process
VM Provisioning using templates
Examples - Vagrant, Heat(Orchestration Tool of openstack)

RL3.5 Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Migration Services

Migration Cold/regular migration
Live Migration Technique
Live Migration Demo

RL3.6 Lab Demo AWS-InstanceCreation

RL3.7 Lab Demo AWS-S3-ObjStorage

RL3.8 Lab Demo OS-Openstack-Install-Setup

RL3.9 Lab Demo OS-InstanceCreation

RL3.10 Lab Demo OS-InstanceCreateWithVol

RL3.11 Lab Demo OS-Swift-ObjStorage

RL3.12 Lab Demo OS-LoadBalancer-Manual

RL3.13 Lab Demo OS-InstanceCreate-Heat-Provision

RL 3.14 Lab Demo OS-LoadBalancer-Heat-Provision

RL3.15 Lab Demo Vagrant-Provision-WebServer

RL3.16 Lab Demo Part1-Proxmox-Cluster-Provision-Migration

RL3.17 Lab Demo Part2-Proxmox-Cluster-Provision-Migration

CS 3.1 Infrastructure as a Introduction to IaaS

Service IaaS examples
Reference Model of AWS
Region Vs Availability zones

CS 3.2 AWS - Storage Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon EBS, AWS Import/Export
and Database Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon AWS Demo
Services Amazon Cloud Services - CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancer, Elastic Block Storage

CS 3.3 Openstack Openstack overview and Components

CS 3.4 VM Provisioning Virtual Machine Provisioning Process

and Migration VM Provisioning using templates, Examples - Vagrant
VM Migrations Techniques
LE3.1 Install Openstack and carry out exercise on RL 3.9-3.17

SS3.1 RL 3.6 - 3.17, Try using Openstack - http://trystack.org/

HW3.1 Compare Openstack vs AWS (Similarities and Differences)

QZ3.1

M4: Containers

Type Title Description

RL4.1 SW Virtualization Dockers

How are Docker Containers different from a Virtual Machine?
Docker Container Lifecycle
Dockerfile

CS4.1 Containers Linux Containers - LXC and LXD

CS4.2 Cloud orchestration technologies

LE4.1

SS4.1

HW4.1

QZ4.1

M5: Platform as a Service and SaaS

Type Title Description

RL5.1 Dependency on IaaS and PaaS

Introduction to PaaS
Building blocks of PaaS
Characteristics of PAAS
Advantages and Risks

RL5.2 Paas Example: Windows Azure

Windows Azure Runtime Environment
Paas Vendors

RL5.3 Introduction to Dependency on IaaS and PaaS

SaaS What is SaaS?
Problems in traditional Model
SaaS – How is it delivered

RL5.4 SaaS – SaaS – Architecture

Architecture SaaS Models
Business Model comparisons

RL5.5 SaaS Advantages SaaS Advantages

SaaS User and Vendor Benefits (CS)
SaaS - Applicability

RL5.6 Lab Demo Get Azure Account

RL5.7 Lab Demo Running Azure app locally

RL5.8 Lab Demo Deploying the local app to Azure

RL5.9 Lab Demo Determine which instance gets serves the request

CS5.1 Intro to PaaS Introduction to PaaS

PaaS examples
5 Principles of UI Design - AWS PaaS

CS5.2 SaaS Introduction to SaaS

Pros and Cons of SaaS model

LE5.1 Try exercise on SS 5.1

SS5.1 RL 5.5, 5.6

HW5.1

QZ5.1

M6: Capacity management and Scheduling in cloud computing

Type Title Description

RL 6.1 Capacity Managing Cloud - Introduction

Management and
Scheduling

RL 6.2 VIM Why a Virtual Infrastructure Manager?

Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Clusters
Virtual Machine Management Model

RL 6.3 OpenNebula What is OpenNebula?

The Benefits of OpenNebula
Interoperability from the Cloud Provider perspective
The Benefits for System Integrators (CS)
The main features of OpenNebula
Comparison with Other technologies (CS)

RL 6.4 OpenNebula OpenNebula Architecture

Process separation
Constructing/Management of a private cloud
System Overview
Complex Storage behind OpenNebula
Networking for private clouds
Users Management(CS)
Preparing VMs for OpenNebula
VM Description
VM States overview
Hybrid cloud
Making an Amazon EC2 hybrid

CS 6.1 Capacity Capacity management

Management Distributed management of virtual machines

CS 6.2 Scheduling Reservation-based provisioning of virtualized resource

Provisioning to meet SLA commitments
LE 6.1

SS 6.1 Documentation of OpenNebula

HW 6.1 Install OpenNebula, Create instances and cluster

QZ 6.1

M7: Issues and Challenges : Availability, Multi-Tenancy, Security and SLA

Type Title Description

RL 7.1 Availability High Availability

Key aspects of SLA

RL 7.2 Multi-Tenancy Multitenancy – What is it?

Pros and Cons
Traditional Deployment Model
Multitenancy – Introduction
Multi-tenants Deployment Modes for Application Server
Multi-tenants Deployment Modes in Data Centers

RL 7.3 Security Introduction to cloud security

Cloud Security Issues
Loss of Control in the Cloud
Multi-tenancy Issues in the Cloud
Taxonomy of Fear
Threat Model

CS 7.1 Multi-Tenancy Multi-Tenancy

4 levels of multi tenancy
Top 5 cloud security threats

CS 7.2 Security and SLA who is responsible for managing security

Service License Agreements: Lifecycle and Management
Traditional approaches to SLO management
Automated Policy based management
Managing Clouds: Services and Infrastructure

LE 7.1

SS 7.1 Study - NimSoft, Netchart

HW 7.1

QZ 7.1

M8: Distributed File System (DFS) and Hadoop

Type Title Description

RL 8.1 Hadoop Why Hadoop?

Introduction to BIG DATA
Hadoop Features
Hadoop Framework Tools

RL 8.2 Hadoop Hadoop common Component

MapReduce (Data Processing Framework)
MapReduce Processing flow
 Architecture Overview
Distributed Word Count
Word Count Execution
MarketRatings example and Program demo
MapReduce Execution Details
Fault Tolerance in MapReduce
Challenges of Cloud Environment

RL 8.3 Lab Demo HadoopMapReduce-MarketRating

RL 8.4 Lab Demo WordCountingwithApachePig

CS 8.1 DFS Introduction to Distributed File System

Case Study HDFS
Setting started - Amazon EMR

CS 8.2 Hadoop Hadoop components and importance of MapReduce

MapReduce Facts
Amazon EMR - Plan and Configure clusters (# only for CSI)
AMazon EMC - Manage Clusters (# only for CSI)

LE 8.1 Install Hadoop and Carry out exercise on Word count and Market ratings

SS 8.1 Study - Hive, PIG, HBase of Hadoop

HW 8.1

QZ 8.1
 Part B: Course Handout

Recommended Structure by Content Development Team

Academic Term .

Course Title Cloud Computing

Course No SE * ZG527

Lead Instructor Chandra Shekar RK

Instructor Nayan Khare

There are 20 contact hours; 10 before mid-semester and 10 post mid-semester.

The 9th &10th contact hour is pre-mid sem review while 19th & 20th contact
hour is pre-comprehensive review
In the tabular cells quote appropriate legends from the modular
structure table.
Contact Pre-contact hour During Contact Post-contact hour
hour prep hour
1 RL 1.1 CS 1.1 SS 1.1

2 RL 1.2, 1.3 CS 1.2 HW 1.1

3 RL 2.1, 2.2 CS 2.1 SS 2.1, RL 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

4 RL 2.3, 2.4 CS 2.2 HW 2.1, LE 2.1

5 RL 3.1, RL 3.2 CS 3.1 RL 3.8, SS 3.1

6 RL 3.3 CS 3.2 RL 3.6, 3.7

7 RL 3.4 CS 3.3 RL 3.9 - 3.15

8 RL 3.5 CS 3.4 RL 3.16 , 3.17

LE 3.1

9 RL 4.1 CS 4.1 SS 4.1

10 CS 4.2 LE 4.1

11 RL 5.1, 5.2 CS 5.1 SS 5.1

12 RL 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 CS 5.2 RL 5.6 - RL 5.9, LE 5.1

13 RL 6.1, 6.2 CS 6.1 SS 6.1

14 RL 6.3, 6.4 CS 6.2 HW 6.1

15 RL 7.1, 7.2 CS 7.1

16 RL 7.3 CS 7.2 SS 7.1

17 RL 8.1 CS 8.1 SS 8.1

18 RL 8.2 CS 8.2 RL 8.3, 8.4, LE 8.1

19 Review Review Review

20 Review Review Review