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orchestration2 CONSTRUCTSService orchestr.PELTZ · SERVICE WORKFLOWResource orchestr.SIRMON · RESOURCE BUNDLING

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Cloud and service computing

Automated coordination of services

In cloud and service computing, orchestration is the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of distributed services, containers, and workflows so that a business process runs as a single controlled flow. Peltz's 2003 account contrasted orchestration, where a central engine holds the process logic and invokes each participant in turn, with choreography, where autonomous peers interact by agreed message exchanges and no central controller. Burns and colleagues later described container orchestration in systems such as Kubernetes, where a controller schedules, scales, and heals workloads across a cluster toward a declared desired state. The referent is a control layer over computing components, not an art of combining instruments, a firm's handling of its resources, or a biological cascade.[1][2]

Unit
A controlled arrangement of services or containers into an executable, managed workflow
Recovery means
A controller reconciles the running system back toward the declared desired state after a failure
Measured by
Assessed by workflow completion, latency, and the controller's ability to schedule, scale, and recover services against a declared state

Management and strategy

the managerial capability of structuring, bundling, and leveraging a firm's resources to create and capture value.

In management and strategy, resource orchestration is the coordinating capability by which managers structure a firm's resource portfolio, bundle resources into capabilities, and leverage those capabilities to create and capture value. Sirmon, Hitt, Ireland, and Gilbert named this stream and integrated the resource management and asset orchestration frameworks, arguing that resources create advantage only through deliberate managerial action across their breadth, depth, and life cycle. The referent is an organisational process of marshalling assets, not an automated software workflow, an art of instrumental arrangement, or a coordinated biological response.[3]

Unit
A firm's managed process of structuring, bundling, and leveraging its resources
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Studied through managers' structuring, bundling, and leveraging actions and their link to firm performance and competitive advantage

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References

  1. Peltz, C. (2003). Web services orchestration and choreography. Computer, 36(10), 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2003.1236471
  2. Burns, B., Grant, B., Oppenheimer, D., Brewer, E., & Wilkes, J. (2016). Borg, Omega, and Kubernetes. Communications of the ACM, 59(5), 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1145/2890784
  3. Sirmon, D. G., Hitt, M. A., Ireland, R. D., & Gilbert, B. A. (2011). Resource orchestration to create competitive advantage: Breadth, depth, and life cycle effects. Journal of Management, 37(5), 1390–1412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206310385695

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