Multi-service application fabric architecture

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10708347-B2
Application number	US-201816177690-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2018
Priority date	Jun 3, 2016
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

In representative embodiments, multiple cloud computing infrastructures, each having its own application and management fabric, coexist with in the same cloud computing infrastructure. This results in a cloud computing infrastructure where multiple management fabrics and application fabrics coexist to offer their own services and cross platform services. Each functions independently and also communicates with each other to offer high availability and disaster recovery. One application and management infrastructure is a host to the other application and management infrastructure. The hosted infrastructure accesses underlying fabrics through the host infrastructure. A resultant system comprises a common hardware fabric, a common runtime, and a service fabric comprising services from both the host and hosted infrastructures.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing system hosting multiple cloud computing infrastructures comprising:
a processor and executable instructions accessible on a machine-readable medium that, when executed, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
provide a common machine layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;
provide an integrated service fabric layer in communication with the common machine layer, the integrated service fabric layer comprising:
a first set of services supporting a first customer fabric;
a second set of services supporting a second customer fabric; and
a third set of services that provides support for both the first customer fabric and the second customer fabric, the third set of services comprising an orchestration engine that provides cross-data center change orchestration for both the first customer fabric and the second customer fabric;

the first set of services providing support for a first plurality of customer services built upon the first customer fabric and the second set of services providing support for a second plurality of customer services built upon the second customer fabric.

2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the second set of services access the common machine layer through the first set of services.

3. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the first set of services and the second set of services provide the same set of services to their respective fabrics.

4. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the first set of services or the second services or both utilize the third set of services.

5. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein:
the first set of services are related to a first cloud service infrastructure;
the second set of services are related to a second cloud service infrastructure;
the third set of services are related to the first cloud service infrastructure.

6. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the third set of services provides service or application deployment based on signals from both fabrics through the orchestration engine.

7. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising a common runtime layer and wherein the first service fabric layer accesses the common machine layer through the common runtime layer.

8. The computing system of claim 1 , further comprising a common runtime layer and wherein the common runtime layer provides communication between the first set of services and the second set of services.

9. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the orchestration engine further provides one or more of: multi-tenancy, logical inventory, trust management, and business policy enforcement.

10. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, which, when executed by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
provide a common machine layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;
provide an integrated service fabric layer in communication with the common machine layer, the integrated service fabric layer comprising:
a first set of services supporting a first customer fabric;
a second set of services supporting a second customer fabric; and
a third set of services that provides support for both the first customer fabric and the second customer fabric, the third set of services comprising an orchestration engine that provides cross-data center change orchestration for both the first customer fabric and the second customer fabric;

the first set of services providing support for a first plurality of customer services built upon the first customer fabric and the second set of services providing support for a second plurality of customer services built upon the second customer fabric.

11. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the second set of services access the common machine layer through the first set of services.

12. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 , wherein the first set of services or the second services or both utilize the third set of services.

13. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 further comprising a communication channel between the first set of services and the second set of services.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the third set of services provides service or application deployment based on signals from both fabrics through the orchestration engine.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 further comprising a common runtime layer and wherein the common runtime layer provides communication between the first set of services and the second set of services.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 10 wherein the orchestration engine further provides one or more of: multi-tenancy, logical inventory, trust management, and business policy enforcement.

17. A method for hosting a tenant cloud computing infrastructure within a host cloud computing infrastructure comprising:
providing a common machine fabric layer comprising at least one service to control of physical assets in a datacenter;
providing a common runtime layer, the common runtime layer in communication with the common machine fabric layer;
providing an integrated service fabric layer comprising:
a host service fabric layer in communication with the common runtime layer, the host service fabric layer comprising a first set of services related to a first cloud service infrastructure and an associated first customer fabric;
a tenant service fabric layer in communication with the host service fabric layer, the tenant service fabric layer providing a second set of services related to a second cloud service infrastructure and an associated second customer fabric; and
a third set of services comprising an orchestration engine that provides cross-data center change orchestration for both the first customer fabric and the second customer fabric.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the third set of services providing services not in the first set of services or in the second set of services.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the third set of services provides service or application deployment based on signals from both fabrics through the orchestration engine.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Wei Zhen
• Li Xiaolong
• Wang Ke
• Raman Sridhar
• Singh Ram Pratap
• Sundararaj Ananth Inamti
• Vitaldevara Krishna
• Kunda Jagadeesh

Classifications

• G06F9/5072 Primary

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F9/5077

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title

• G06Q30/016

  After-sales · CPC title