Hi All
I would like to propose ARIA TOSCA to be an Apache Incubator Project. ARIA TOSCA project offers an easily consumable Software Development Kit(SDK) and a Command Line Interface(CLI) to implement TOSCA(Topology and Orchestration Specification of Cloud Applications) based solutions which will help in driving adoption of TOSCA, and help in market consolidation around TOSCA based Orchestration. One of the key attributes of the TOSCA specification by OASIS is that it is a vendor neutral and technology agnostic specification, allowing to describe applications and then to orchestrate them using various technologies of choice, such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, OpenStack, VMware, Puppet, Ansible Chef, etc’. The reality is such that TOSCA is a complex specification,making software vendors trying to implement the specification make implementation decisions, ending up with different and incompatible implementations, creating even more market segmentation instead of consolidating around a single standard for orchestration. ARIA a vendor neutral and technology agnostic(via plugins mechanism) reference implementation of the TOSCA specification. It is an open source python library that helps orchestrators and management tools in developing TOSCA enabled solutions. ARIA aims to become the main reference implementation of the OASIS TOSCA(Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) specification for orchestrating cloud applications. ARIA TOSCA targets NFV Orchestration and Hybrid/Multi Cloud orchestration as main use-cases it solves. ARIA can be executed via CLI to orchestrate application templates, additionally it allows embedding its python library for creating TOSCA compatible services, and includes rich set of plugins for Iaas orchestration, such as Amazon AWS, Google GCP, OpenStack and VMWare; It Includes plugins for Container orchestration, with Docker and Kubernetes plugins, configuration management tools(Puppet,Chef, Ansible) and a rich API that allows to create plugins for any new technology. ARIA also serves as a codebase that allows to test the TOSCA specification, and experiment with new approaches of modeling and orchestration of applications, providing feedback and real world use cases OASIS to further refine and advance the standard specification. Please find the full project proposal here: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AriaProposal *Champion:* Suneel Marthi *Nominated Mentors* Jakob Homan John D. Ament Suneel Marthi Thank You, Arthur Berezin
