Cloudsim is an open source library to run robotic applications in the cloud. It currently supports deployments using Kubernetes and AWS resources, but support for other providers can be implemented.
The cloudsim library provides multiple components that are used by applications to run simulations in the cloud. These components usually are an abstraction of a third-party service that will be consumed by cloudsim, and they were created in order to let the application decide which technologies to use.
- A Simulator component that allows to schedule simulations in a certain Platform.
- A Platform component that groups other components in such a way that represents a certain region in a cloud provider or a custom setup used by applications.
- A Machines component in charge of interacting with a cloud provider and performing various operations (request, termination, count) with instances like EC2 machines.
- A Storage component that uploads artifacts produced by a Simulation to a cloud storage like S3.
- A Cost Calculator component that allows application to keep track of their expenses and the cost of running simulations in a certain cloud provider.
- An Orchestrator component that interacts with a Kubernetes cluster to launch, stop and restart simulation resources, including but not limited to the following sub-components:
- Pods
- Nodes
- Secrets
- Configurations
- Network
- Ingresses
- Services
- A Cycler component that allows cycling over different regions in a cloud provider, implementing different strategies to enable multi-region support.
- An Email Sender that allows notifying users about their simulations.
A more extensive description of each component and examples on how to create applications will be introduced in a future version of this document.
Using Go CLI
go get github.com/gazebo-web/cloudsim/v4There are many ways to contribute to Gazebo Cloudsim.
- Reviewing source code changes.
- Reporting bugs.
- Creating new issues to discuss potential new features.
Released under Apache by @gazebo-web.