Abstract: The trend of cloud computing market in the world is increasing rapidly. More and more companies and research organizations deploy their applications in commercial cloud computing platform. Unfortunately, a part of applications have degraded performance after deployed to virtual hosts in cloud computing. Moreover, some applications cannot run on virtual hosts. To solve this problem, a provision mechanism for physical servers in cloud computing based on REST architecture style was proposed, which can deploy those applications mentioned above to physical servers in cloud computing directly. Firstly, we installed Cobbler to control physical servers, and developed a REST-style module based on the API and command line of Cobbler server. Then, the Web server can communicate with the Cobbler server via RESTful API. Finally, a user can totally control a physical server in cloud computing through the Web management dashboard. The provision mechanism was tested in the experiment environment. The test results showed the provision mechanism achieves the expected goal.

Key words: REST architecture style, physical server, provision mechanism, cloud computing