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Model-Driven Machine Learning for Predictive Cloud Auto-scaling

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Model-Driven Machine Learning for Predictive Cloud Auto-scaling

Alipour, Hanieh (2019) Model-Driven Machine Learning for Predictive Cloud Auto-scaling. PhD thesis, Concordia University.

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Abstract

Cloud provisioning of resources requires continuous monitoring and analysis of the workload on virtual computing resources. However, cloud providers offer the rule-based and schedule-based auto-scaling service. Auto-scaling is a cloud system that reacts to real-time metrics and adjusts service instances based on predefined scaling policies. The challenge of this reactive approach to auto-scaling is to cope with fluctuating load changes. For data management applications, the workload is changing and needs forecasting on historical trends and integrating with auto-scaling service. We aim to discover changes and patterns on multi metrics of resource usages of CPU, memory, and networking. To address this problem, the learning-and-inference based prediction has been adopted to predict the needs prior to provision action.

First, we develop a novel machine learning-based auto-scaling process that covers the technique of learning multiple metrics for cloud auto-scaling decision. This technique is used for continuous model training and workload forecasting. Furthermore, the result of workload forecasting triggers the auto-scaling process automatically. Also, we build the serverless functions of this machine learning-based process, including monitoring, machine learning, model selection, scheduling as microservices and orchestrating these independent services by platform, language orthogonal APIs. We demonstrate this architectural implementation on AWS and Microsoft Azure and show the prediction results from machine learning on-the-fly. Results show significant cost reductions by our proposed solution compared to a general threshold-based auto-scaling.

Still, there is a need to integrate the machine learning prediction with the auto-scaling system. So, the deployment effort of devising additional machine learning components is increased. So, we present a model-driven framework that defines first-class entities to represent machine learning algorithm types, inputs, outputs, parameters, and evaluation scores. We set up rules for validating machine learning entities. The connection between the machine learning and auto-scaling system is presented by two levels of abstraction models, namely cloud platform independent model and cloud platform specific model. We automate the model-to-model transformation and model-to-deployment transformation. We integrate model-driven with a DevOps approach to make models deployable and executable on a target cloud platform. We demonstrate our method with scaling configuration and deployment of two open source benchmark applications - Dell DVD store and Netflix (NDBench) on three cloud platforms, AWS, Azure, and Rackspace. The evaluation shows our inference-based auto-scaling with model-driven reduces approximately 27% of deployment effort compared to the ordinary auto-scaling.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science > Electrical and Computer Engineering
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Authors:Alipour, Hanieh
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:Ph. D.
Program:Electrical and Computer Engineering
Date:May 2019
Thesis Supervisor(s):Liu, Yan
ID Code:985627
Deposited By: HANIEH ALIPOUR
Deposited On:30 Jul 2019 14:41
Last Modified:14 Nov 2019 18:14
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