TY - GEN
T1 - Towards Automated Patch Management in a Hybrid Cloud
AU - Hafeez, Ubaid Ullah
AU - Karve, Alexei
AU - Dumba, Braulio
AU - Gandhi, Anshul
AU - Zeng, Sai
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Software patching is routinely employed for enterprise online applications to guard against ever-increasing security risks and to keep up with customer requirements. However, in a hybrid cloud setting, where an application deployment can span across diverse cloud environments, patching becomes challenging, especially since application components may be deployed as containers or VMs or bare-metal machines. Further, application tiers may have dependencies, which need to be respected. Worse, to minimize application downtime, selected patches need to be applied in a finite time period. This paper presents an automated patching strategy for hybrid-cloud—deployed applications that leverages a greedy algorithm design to optimally patch applications. Our implementation and evaluation results highlight the efficacy of our strategy and its superiority over alternative patching strategies.
AB - Software patching is routinely employed for enterprise online applications to guard against ever-increasing security risks and to keep up with customer requirements. However, in a hybrid cloud setting, where an application deployment can span across diverse cloud environments, patching becomes challenging, especially since application components may be deployed as containers or VMs or bare-metal machines. Further, application tiers may have dependencies, which need to be respected. Worse, to minimize application downtime, selected patches need to be applied in a finite time period. This paper presents an automated patching strategy for hybrid-cloud—deployed applications that leverages a greedy algorithm design to optimally patch applications. Our implementation and evaluation results highlight the efficacy of our strategy and its superiority over alternative patching strategies.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85076363496
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33702-5_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33702-5_26
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783030337018
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 345
EP - 350
BT - Service-Oriented Computing - 17th International Conference, ICSOC 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Yangui, Sami
A2 - Drira, Khalil
A2 - Bouassida Rodriguez, Ismael
A2 - Tari, Zahir
PB - Springer
T2 - 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2019
Y2 - 28 October 2019 through 31 October 2019
ER -