=== TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) ===

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| Status | Release Candidate |
| Body | [[OASIS|OASIS (Organisation of the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)]] |
| URL | https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca |
| Source | Web Search |

From the OASIS Web Site: TOSCA will enable the interoperable description of application and infrastructure cloud services, the relationships between parts of the service, and the operational behavior of these services (e.g., deploy, patch, shutdown)--independent of the supplier creating the service, and any particular cloud provider or hosting technology. TOSCA will also make it possible for higher-level operational behavior to be associated with cloud infrastructure management.

By increasing service and application portability in a vendor-neutral ecosystem, TOSCA will enable:
  * Portable deployment to any compliant cloud
  * Smoother migration of existing applications to the cloud
  * Flexible bursting (consumer choice)
  * Dynamic, multi-cloud provider applications