Adjustment to managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud standard

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10244081-B2
Application number	US-201715650923-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2017
Priority date	Nov 29, 2012
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

An arbitrary customer instance is transferred from a customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image. An image adjustment plan, capturing at least one adjustment required to render the transferred image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, is formulated. The image adjustment plan is executed to adjust the transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with standards of the target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment. The adjusted image is on-boarded into the managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
transferring an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image,
said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment;
formulating an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules;
bootstrapping an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs;
executing said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions; and
on-boarding said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof;
wherein, in said transferring, formulating, executing, and on-boarding steps, said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment has a management layer;
further comprising managing said standard image with said management layer together with, and in the same manner as, at least one application created from a managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment application golden master and executing said workload of said customer in said managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment using an instance of said standard image.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in said executing step, said transferred image is adjusted offline in a file system of said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein said adjustment orchestrator comprises an offline orchestrator and wherein said executing step comprises executing said image adjustment plan with said offline orchestrator interacting with said transferred image in said file system of said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform the method of:
transferring an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image,
said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment;
formulating an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules;
bootstrapping an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs;
executing said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions; and
on-boarding said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof;
wherein, in said transferring, formulating, executing, and on-boarding steps, said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment has a management layer;
further comprising managing said standard image with said management layer together with, and in the same manner as, at least one application created from a managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment application golden master and executing said workload of said customer in said managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment using an instance of said standard image.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 4 , wherein, in said executing step of said method, said transferred image is adjusted offline in a file system of said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 5 , wherein said adjustment orchestrator comprises an offline orchestrator and wherein said executing step of said method comprises executing said image adjustment plan with said offline orchestrator interacting with said transferred image in said file system of said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.

7. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor, coupled to said memory, and operative to:
transfer an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image,
said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment;
formulate an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules;
bootstrap an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs;
execute said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions; and
on-board said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof;
wherein said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environm

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Ananthanarayanan Rema
• Bhattacharya Kamal
• Graf Florian
• Jayachandran Praveen
• Krishnamurthy Bharat
• Renganarayana Lakshminarayanan
• Schlatter Marcel
• Schultz Kristiann J
• Verma Akshat
• Viswanathan Balaji
• Zhang Xiaolan

Classifications

• G06F9/5072 Primary

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L67/42 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/1034

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• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title