Model-driven development for Microservices : A domain-specific modeling language for Kubernetes

Abstract: In the digital age that we live in today, we are dependent on numerous web applications or services, from dealing with banking, booking air flights, and handling our taxes. We expect these applications and services to support high availability, data loss prevention, and fast response time. Microservices is a design pattern to support faster software change, and it also supports other non-functional attributes such as scalability and high availability. One way to deploy your software as microservices is to use containers and deploy them on a container cluster such as Kubernetes. The public opinion about writing Kubernetes deployment files is that it is complex and repetitive writing. This project aims to see how model-driven development can assist with the creation of the Kubernetes deployment files. To see how model-driven development can assist in the creation of Kubernetes files. The project will implement a domain-specific modeling language for Kubernetes, and the language should be able to model the application's desired states. And by using model transformation, the tool can generate Kubernetes deployable files.