Creation of a private cloud infrastructure : building a foundation for cloud services

This thesis focuses on our journey to create a functioning hardware-based infrastructure for a cloud environment. The project was conceived by Alexander Enberg, Osaiasi Foleti and approved by the Turku University of Applied Sciences' (TUAS) Internet Technology lab directors and instructors after proposing a new direction derived from the original project scope. The current structure consists of proprietary software for management-plane utilization and open-source software as a means of cost-effective approaches to cloud creation. The hardware is provided for by the TUAS Internet Technology lab, allowing us to match the hardware requirements stipulated by the software we are using. The aim of this project is to investigate both open-source and proprietary solutions in cloud infrastructure creation, delineating the creation methodology and the scalability of the platform. The objective thus is to develop a functional cloud infrastructure that would be serviceable in a production environment. This thesis should cover the topics of installation and maintenance of the cloud infrastructure and explore methods to scale growing operations in small/home office environments. This thesis was written by two students: Alexander Enberg and Osaiasi Foleti. Alexander was in charge of the software that kept the cloud environment running. He wrote the associated software text and most of the literature heavy parts found in this thesis. Osaiasi oversaw the hardware side of the cloud environment and the associated description and text also found in this thesis. The outcome of this project is to have an operational cloud infrastructure as a proof-of-concept model to show our knowledge. This can be used as a basis for other cloud projects for TUAS to utilize should the project show potential for further development if local hosting of services is necessary.This thesis was written by two students: Alexander Enberg and Osaiasi Folet