Michman: an Orchestrator to deploy distributed services in cloud environments

Big data storing and processing require specialized distributed services and significant amounts of computing resources. Cloud environments allow one to deploy virtual clusters with the requested characteristics and install the necessary services, but manual configuration is too laborious and inefficient. To use IaaS clouds one should be a highly knowledgeable in the field of system administration. This article presents a Michman tool, which allows on-demand deployment of clusters with a set of services in the cloud IaaS, stores information about deployed systems and provides management of their life cycle. The tool is implemented as a service with a system of user groups, REST API carries access to the system.