The <i>μ</i> TOSCA toolchain: Mining, analyzing, and refactoring microservice‐based architectures

Exploiting microservices to architect enterprise applications is becoming commonplace. This makes it crucial provide some support for designing and analyzing microservice-based applications, example, understanding whether a application adheres the main design principles of choosing how refactor when this not case. To such support, in article we present TOSCA toolchain. More precisely, first introduce model represent architecture with OASIS standard TOSCA. We then describe technique automatically mine TOSCA, given Kubernetes deployment application. also methodology analyze representation systematically identify architectural smells potentially affecting corresponding resolve them. Finally, two prototype tools, Miner Freshener, implementing our mining solution identifying resolving respectively. assess —by discussing case studies— effectively Miner, toolchain can researchers practitioners working microservices.