Prototyping a cloud resource broker

Prototyping a Cloud Resource Broker As Kubernetes gains adoption, clusters start to be everywhere: on private data-centres, on the cloud, at the edge of the network and so on. With Liqo, a project carried out by the Computer Networks Group at Politecnico di Torino, applications and services can leverage those resources, by creating dynamic and opportunistic peerings of clusters. Starting from this list of features this thesis has the aim of doing another step. This work, carried out by the Computer Networks Group at Politecnico di Torino and developed with the collaboration of TOP-IX, tried to extend the concept of resource sharing already implemented by Liqo creating a prototype of resource brokering: a broker is a new type of cluster which has the task of aggregate all the resources shared by other normal clusters and "sell" them to every cluster which has an Incoming Peering with it in a smart way. With this new concept will be possible to have a trusted cluster to connect with which can satisfy every resources request grouping a lot of offers sent by other providers. All these features are implemented using the most important Liqo core concepts (e.g. Peering, reflection, pod offloading). This is a prototyping work so there is no explicit attention to the performances but there are some tests and measures that have been done to evaluate the impact of these new features.