Claudia Service Management Platform

Claudia is an IaaS solution created by Telefonica R&D aimed at managing services as whole entities and adding advanced features such as elasticity, service level, hardware monitoring, and virtual machine autoconfiguration. Claudia also provides an abstraction layer on top of both private and public Virtualization Providers. In this chapter, the Open Source version of Claudia will be installed, and it will be used to show how a load-balanced Web service can be deployed and managed in the system.