CloudLaunch as a Gateway for Discovering and Launching Cloud Applications

Global presence of cloud computing infrastructure and increasing demand by researchers to be able to easily gain access to research software on a cloud of choice is putting pressure on application deployers to make their applications easily accessible on multiple clouds. However, performing complex IaaS orchestration tasks on multiple clouds is often difficult, as it requires that each cloud be tested and supported individually. In this demo, we present CloudLaunch as a portal for discovering and launching cloud-enabled applications on a variety of cloud providers, while being able to write complex IaaS orchestration tasks in a cloud agnostic manner. The portal makes it possible for deployers to readily integrate their application into the portal while end-users can easily browse and launch available applications. CloudLaunch provides necessary abstractions to make either task uniform and accessible across all supported cloud providers.