Extensions for deployment patterns

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10430171-B2
Application number	US-201715854294-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 26, 2017
Priority date	Mar 31, 2014
Publication date	Oct 1, 2019
Grant date	Oct 1, 2019

Abstract

Extension patterns are deployed to core deployment patterns stored in a first software repository. An event relating to registration of a component is detected. In response to detecting the event, a tool registry can be queried to identify one or more extension deployment patterns for use with one or more core deployment patterns. Based upon the query, one or more extension deployment components can be retrieved from a second software repository. The one or more extension deployment components can be deployed on top of one or more instances of the one or more core deployment patterns.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for deploying extensions to core deployment patterns stored in a first software repository, the system comprising:
at least one computer processor circuit and
at least one computer readable medium storing executable instructions that when executed, cause the processor to:
detect an event relating to registration of a component in a deployment pattern;
query, in response to the event, a tool registry to identify one or more extension deployment patterns for use with one or more core deployment patterns;
retrieve, based upon the query, one or more extension deployment components from a second software repository; and
deploy at least one of the one or more extension deployment components on top of one or more deployed instances of the one or more core deployment patterns, causing management agents to be installed on the respective instances, wherein the management agents are configured to monitor at least one component of the respective instances of the core deployment patterns.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:
identify, automatically, the one or more deployed instances of the one or more core deployment patterns;
update, automatically, the tool registry with agent installable files;
access, automatically, for each of the one or more core deployment patterns, environmental information, the environmental information indicating an environment in which each instance of the one or more core deployment patterns is deployed; and
filter, automatically, the one or more extension deployment components based, at least in part, upon the environmental information and metadata of the one or more extension deployment components, wherein the metadata of the one or more extension deployment components indicates one or more environments in which the one or more extension deployment components are configured to be deployed.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event is the deployment of a core deployment pattern.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event is the registration of a new extension deployment pattern.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the event is the registration of a new management tool corresponding to an extension deployment pattern.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions, when executed, further access a core deployment pattern from a first software repository using a first interface and accessing an extension deployment pattern from a second software repository using the first interface.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the executable instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one processor circuit to retrieve, for each of the one or more instances of the one or more core deployment patterns, an Internet Protocol (IP) address and configuration information for ports associated with the IP address.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein deploying the one or more extension deployment components on top of the one or more deployed instances does not modify an original core deployment pattern.

9. The system of claim 2 , wherein the environment in which each instance of the one or more core deployment patterns is deployed is one of the group consisting of a test environment, a development environment, and a production environment.

10. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more deployed instances of one or more core deployment patterns includes a first instance, the first instance being deployed in a test environment, and wherein the filtering the one or more extension deployment components based upon the environmental information and metadata of the one or more extension deployment components includes:
identifying a first extension deployment component;
determining, based on metadata for the first extension deployment component, that the first extension deployment component should not be deployed in test environments; and
removing the first extension deployment component from the one or more extension deployment components to be deployed on top of the first instance.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more deployed instances of the one or more core deployment patterns are executing on a computing system prior to the one or more extension deployment components being deployed.

12. A computer program product for deploying extensions to core deployment patterns stored in a first software repository, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions readable by a processor circuit to cause the processor circuit to:
detect an event relating to registration of a component in a deployment pattern;
query, in response to the event, at tool registry to identify one or more extension deployment patterns for use with one or more core deployment patterns;
retrieve, based upon the query, one or more extension deployment components from a second software repository; and
deploy at least one of the one or more extension deployment components on top of at least one deployed instance of the one or more core deployment patterns, causing monitoring agents to be installed on the respective instances, the monitoring agents being configured to monitor one or more components of the respective instances.

13. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the program instructions readable by a processor circuit further to cause the processor circuit to:
identify, automatically, one or more deployed instances of one or more core deployment patterns;
update, automatically, the tool registry with agent installable files;
access, automatically, for each of the one or more core deployment patterns, environmental information, the environmental information indicating an environment in which each instance of the one or more core deployment patterns is deployed; and
filter, automatically, the one or more extension deployment components based, at least in part, upon the environmental information and metadata of the one or more extension deployment components, wherein the metadata of the one or more extension deployment components indicates one or more environments in which the one or more extension deployment components are configured to be deployed.

14. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the event is the deployment of a core deployment pattern.

15. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the event is the registration of a new extension deployment pattern.

16. The computer program product of claim 12 , wherein the event is the registration of a new management tool corresponding to an extension deployment pattern.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the environment in which each instance of the one or more core deployment patterns is deployed is one of the group consisting of a test environment, a development environment, and a production environment.

18. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the one or more deployed instances of one or more core deployment patterns includes a first instance, the first instance being deployed in a test environment, and wherein the filtering the one or more extension deployment components based upon the environmental information and metadata of the one or more extension deployment components includes:
identifying a first extension deployment component;
determining, based on metadata for the first extension deployment component, that the first extension deployment component should not be deployed in test environments; and
removing the first

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Giammaria Alberto
• Peters Christopher A
• Spatzier Thomas

Classifications

• G06F8/70

  Software maintenance or management · CPC title

• G06F8/71

  Version control (security arrangements therefor G06F21/57); Configuration management · CPC title

• G06F16/9535

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F9/5061

  Partitioning or combining of resources · CPC title