CSA ISO/IEC TS 23167:20

CSA Preface Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the SCC Mirror Committee (SMC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T). For brevity, this Standard will be referred to as "CSA ISO/IEC TS 23167" throughout. At the time of publication, ISO/IEC TS 23167:2020 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA Group will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been developed in compliance with Standards Council of Canada requirements for National Standards of Canada. It has been published as a National Standard of Canada by CSA Group. Scope This document provides a description of a set of common technologies and techniques used in conjunction with cloud computing. These include: - virtual machines (VMs) and hypervisors; - containers and container management systems (CMSs); - serverless computing; - microservices architecture; - automation; - platform as a service systems and architecture; - storage services; - security, scalability and networking as applied to the above cloud computing technologies.