Virtualization of ephemeral organization structures in a multitenant environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10387291-B2
Application number	US-201715727273-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 6, 2017
Priority date	Nov 4, 2016
Publication date	Aug 20, 2019
Grant date	Aug 20, 2019

Abstract

Apparatuses and techniques to utilize a scratch organization as a unit of virtualization. Potential hosts for a scratch organization are evaluated. The potential hosts include at least the first group of hardware processing devices and a second group of the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide remote client computing environments. A target host is selected from the potential hosts. The scratch organization to be hosted by the target host is generated. Data is loaded from a test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization. One or more test operations are performed on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host. The scratch organization is destroyed on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a plurality of hardware processing devices coupled with one or more memory devices, wherein a first group of the plurality of hardware processing devices are to provide a multitenant environment in which each tenant includes a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to a resource instance, wherein a selected tenant includes one or more organizations that have corresponding subsets of specific privileges to the resource instance, the first group of hardware processing devices configurable to:
evaluate potential hosts for a scratch organization that is based on a designated set of metadata defining at least a set of privileges for the scratch organization, the potential hosts comprising at least the first group of hardware processing devices and a second group of the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide remote client computing environments;
select a target host from the potential hosts;
generate the scratch organization to be hosted by the target host;
load data from a test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization;
perform one or more test operations on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host;
destroy the scratch organization on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the scratch organization is an ephemeral organization that contains no user data and no test data at creation.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the data comprises synthetic data for testing.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the selected tenant comprises multiple scratch organizations having different scopes, wherein at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a first set of privileges that is a subset of the set of privileges and at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a second set of privileges that is not a subset of the set of privileges.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the set of metadata comprises metadata corresponding to one or more of tenant specific data, user management, tenant-specific functionality, configuration, customizations, non-functional properties, associated applications to define a shape of the corresponding organization.

6. A method implemented by a plurality of hardware processing devices coupled with one or more memory devices, the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide a multitenant environment in which each tenant includes a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to a resource instance, wherein a selected tenant includes multiple organizations that have a corresponding subset of specific privileges to the resource instance, the method comprising:
evaluating potential hosts for a scratch organization that is based on a designated set of metadata defining at least a set of privileges for the scratch organization, the potential hosts comprising at least the first group of hardware processing devices and a second group of the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide remote client computing environments;
selecting a target host from the potential hosts;
generating the scratch organization to be hosted by the target host;
loading data from a test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization;
performing one or more test operations on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host;
destroying the scratch organization on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the scratch organization is an ephemeral organization that contains no user data and no test data at creation.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the data comprises synthetic data for testing.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the selected tenant comprises multiple scratch organizations having different scopes, wherein at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a first set of privileges that is a subset of the set of privileges and at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a second set of privileges that is not a subset of the set of privileges.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein the set of metadata comprises metadata corresponding to one or more of tenant specific data, user management, tenant-specific functionality, configuration, customizations, non-functional properties, associated applications to define a shape of the corresponding organization.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a plurality of hardware processing devices coupled with one or more memory devices, are configurable to method implemented by a plurality of hardware processing devices coupled with one or more memory devices are configurable to provide a multitenant environment in which each tenant includes a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to a resource instance, wherein a selected tenant includes multiple organizations that have a corresponding subset of specific privileges to the resource instance, the instructions to cause the plurality of hardware processing devices to:
evaluate potential hosts for a scratch organization that is based on a designated set of metadata defining at least a set of privileges for the scratch organization, the potential hosts comprising at least the first group of hardware processing devices and a second group of the plurality of hardware processing devices to provide remote client computing environments;
select a target host from the potential hosts;
generate the scratch organization to be hosted by the target host;
load data from a test source that is not the subject organization into the scratch organization;
perform one or more test operations on the scratch organization using the loaded data with the target host;
destroy the scratch organization on the selected host after the one or more test operations have been performed.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the scratch organization is an ephemeral organization that contains no user data and no test data at creation.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the data comprises synthetic data for testing.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the selected tenant comprises multiple scratch organizations having different scopes, wherein at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a first set of privileges that is a subset of the set of privileges and at least one of the multiple scratch organizations has a second set of privileges that is not a subset of the set of privileges.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 wherein the set of metadata comprises metadata corresponding to one or more of tenant specific data, user management, tenant-specific functionality, configuration, customizations, non-functional properties, associated applications to define a shape of the corresponding organization.

Assignees

• Salesforce Com Inc

Inventors

• Wunderlich James Bock
• Murnock George
• Kaplan Josh
• Miller Michael Dwayne
• Wilding Mark

Classifications

• G06F11/3688

  for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites · CPC title

• H04L43/50

  Testing arrangements · CPC title

• H04L67/14

  Session management (for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066) · CPC title

• G06F21/62

  Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules · CPC title

• H04L67/1097

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title