Dynamic association of application workload tiers to infrastructure elements in a cloud computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10747710-B2
Application number	US-201816115899-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2018
Priority date	Dec 16, 2014
Publication date	Aug 18, 2020
Grant date	Aug 18, 2020

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the dynamic association of components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure includes defining in memory of a host computing system a pattern that has an inventory of components of a multi-tier application. The method also includes associating each of the components with a corresponding tier label for an n-tier architecture. The method yet further includes loading the pattern into a pattern engine. Finally, the method includes deploying by the pattern engine each component of the pattern to a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure comprising different application-specific, operational layers separated from its presentation and data layers, the method comprising:
defining, in memory of a host computing system, a pattern comprising a table of components, the table comprising:
a column of data fields, each data field identifying one of the components of the corresponding multi-tier application;
a different column of different data fields, each different data field reflecting a corresponding one of a multiplicity of tier labels referring to specific virtual machines of specific tiers of the multi-tier application into which each identified one of the components is to be deployed; and
another column of further different fields that are tags;

loading the pattern into a pattern engine; and
deploying by the pattern engine, each component of the pattern to one of a public Internet layer, a Web layer, or a data layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to an associated one of the tier labels associated with the component, by:
loading a first one of the components in the table of the pattern;
identifying a corresponding one of the tier labels for the first one of the components and also a presence of a tag in the pattern;
if the tag corresponds to a pre-specified tag, deploying the first one of the components but otherwise not deploying the first one of the components; and
repeating the loading, identifying and deploying for each other one of the components in the table of the pattern.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each component of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag describing an associated class such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

5. A computer program product for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure comprising different application-specific, operational layers separated from its presentation and data layers, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:
defining, in memory of a host computing system a pattern comprising a table of components, the table comprising:
a column of data fields, each data field identifying one of the components of the corresponding multi-tier application:
a different column of different data fields, each different data field reflecting a corresponding one of a multiplicity of tier labels referring to specific virtual machines of specific tiers of the multi-tier application into which each identified one of the components is to be deployed; and
another column of further different fields that are tags;

loading the pattern into a pattern engine; and
deploying, by the pattern engine, each component of the pattern to one of a public Internet layer, a Web layer, or a data layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to an associated one of the tier labels associated with the component by:
loading a first one of the components in the table of the pattern;
identifying a corresponding one of the tier labels for the first one of the components and also a presence of a tag;
if the tag corresponds to a pre-specified tag, deploying the first one of the components but otherwise not deploying the first one of the components; and
repeating the loading, identifying and deploying for each other one of the components in the table of the pattern.

6. The computer program of claim 5 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each component of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of then-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

7. The computer program of claim 5 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

8. The computer program of claim 5 , wherein each of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag describing an associated class such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

9. A computer program product for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure comprising different application-specific, operational layers separated from its presentation and data layers, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:
defining, in memory of a host computing system, a pattern comprising a table of components, the table comprising;
a column of data fields, each data field identifying one of the components of the corresponding multi-tier application;
a different column of different data fields, each different data field reflecting a corresponding one of a multiplicity of tier labels referring to specific virtual machines of specific tiers of the multi-tier application into which each identified one of the components is to be deployed; and
another column of further different fields that are tags;

loading the pattern into a pattern engine executing in the memory; and
deploying, by the pattern engine, each component of the pattern to one of a public Internet layer, a Web layer, or a data layer of then-tier architecture corresponding to an associated one of the tier labels associated with the component by;
loading a first one of the components in the table of the pattern;
identifying a corresponding one of the tier labels for the first one of the components;
deploying the first one of the components; and
repeating the loading, identifying and deploying for each other one of the components in the table of the pattern.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each of the individual components of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with each individual one of the components.

11. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

12. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein each individual one of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Apte Ajay A
• Brabson Roy F
• Kirby Iii Orvalle T
• Mcgee Jason R
• Moonen Scott C
• Woods Donald R

Classifications

• H04L41/40 Primary

  using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities · CPC title

• H04L67/56

  Provisioning of proxy services (store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54) · CPC title

• G06F8/71

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

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title