R&D Engineer at INRIA

I am currently working as a Research Engineer at Inria within the STACK team, where I am developing an extension for Ansible that integrates the coordination mechanisms of Concerto, a high-level model for orchestrating distributed applications.

The objective of this project is to enhance Ansible with declarative coordination logic, enabling it to manage complex distributed deployment workflows with native synchronization, event-driven behavior, and inter-component orchestration.

This work is supervised by Hélène Coullon and Baptiste Jonglez, and takes place within IMT Atlantique and Inria Nantes, in the context of research on automated infrastructure and edge/cloud software management.

🧠 Project Goal

• Combine Ansible’s widespread usage and simplicity
• With Concerto’s formal coordination model
• To produce a tool that supports adaptive and reactive orchestration

This would enable developers and DevOps engineers to write expressive, dependency-aware, and resilient playbooks that adapt to real-time system behavior.

🛠 Technologies Involved

• Ansible (automation tool)
• Concerto DSL (for coordination)
• Python & YAML (for implementation and integration)
• Concepts like stateful orchestration, workflow graphs, and runtime control

This project is currently under active development and is part of a broader vision within the STACK team to improve the automation and reliability of distributed software deployment from edge to cloud.