ARGON: A Model-Driven Infrastructure Provisioning Tool

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach to infrastructure automation based on practices from software development. IaC tools use scripts to specify the creation, update, and execution of cloud infrastructures. As each cloud provider offers a different type of infrastructure, the definition of an infrastructure element implies to write several lines of code that strongly depend on the target cloud provider. As a result, managing IaC scripts has become a time-consuming and error-prone activity. In previous work, we have presented ARGON, which is a model-driven infrastructure provisioning tool. ARGON implements a domain-specific language (DSL) for modeling the characteristics of the cloud infrastructure and provides transformation engines to automate the infrastructure provisioning for different cloud providers. In this demonstration, we show the use of ARGON for modeling and provisioning a load balancer in Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple virtual machines.