Service management and provisioning for tenant service instances

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10986479-B2
Application number	US-201815873778-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 17, 2018
Priority date	Jan 17, 2018
Publication date	Apr 20, 2021
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021

Abstract

According to an example, a system may include an instance controller to manage service instances deployed on an infrastructure that facilitates data segregation and performance level compliance. The instance controller deploys a service instance of the service instances in a container and terminates the service instances in response to determining the service suite instance is idle based on the notification. Additionally, the system may deploy a component from the service instance from outside the container.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A service management and provisioning system comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions executable by the at least one processor to manage service instances deployed on an infrastructure, wherein the at least one processor is to:
deploy for a tenant a first service instance of the service instances, wherein the first service instance comprises at least one application available in a service suite;
detect a need to scale out the first service instance from a management plane module connected to an instance controller, wherein the management plane module is to monitor usage, load, performance, and service level agreement and policy compliance of the first service instance and the infrastructure;
instruct the management plane module to deploy a second service instance for the tenant in response to a notification of the need to scale out;
direct the management plane module to terminate or scale in the first service instance in response to a determination that the first service instance is idle;
determine whether a service requested by a user of the tenant is available in the service suite or is external to the service suite; and
obtain an address of the service that is external to the service suite using a domain name system (DNS) server in response to a determination that the service requested by the user is external to the service suite, wherein a gateway routes a request for the service to the address determined by the DNS server.

2. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the service management and provisioning system is to receive a request from the user for the service; and
the at least one processor is to determine whether at least one instance of the service requested by the user is deployed for the tenant; and
in response to a determination that the at least one instance of the service requested by the user is deployed for the tenant, direct the user to the at least one instance of the service requested by the user that is deployed for the tenant.

3. The system according to claim 2 , wherein in response to a determination that the instance of the service requested by the user is not deployed, the at least one processor is to:
deploy a containerized instance of the service requested by the user, wherein the containerized instance of the service requested by the user includes a management module; and
provide the user with access to the containerized instance of the service requested by the user through the management module of the containerized instance of the service requested by the user.

4. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the service suite is containerized and the gateway is configured with the address of the service external to the service suite, wherein the address of the service external to the service suite is:
entered at installation of the service suite;
entered or updated when the service external to the service suite is relocated; or
discovered through a registry.

5. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the infrastructure is to facilitate data segregation and performance level compliance.

6. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the first service instance is deployed in a container and wherein at least one of the service instances comprises a single-tenant logic.

7. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one application is a single-tenant application offered as software as a service (SaaS).

8. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is to create more service instances for the tenant in response to a detection of:
an overload of the first service instance;
a performance drop of the first service instance; or
a service level agreement (SLA) violation.

9. The system according to claim 1 , wherein to terminate the first service instance in response to the determination that the first service instance is idle, the at least one processor is to determine whether the first service instance is idle based on at least one of whether any users are using the first service instance, and whether monitored computer resource metrics of the first service instance indicate the first service instance is idle, and wherein to terminate the first service instance, the management plane module is to terminate a container containing the first service instance.

10. The system according to claim 1 , wherein the service instances of the tenant are integrated to execute compositions and share data over an integration layer, wherein the integration layer is to support remote execution of services deployed on-premise and in a cloud, wherein at least one service component resides on-premise.

11. A computer-implemented method executable by at least one processor, the method comprising:
processing tenant on-boarding data for a tenant;
receiving a request for a service from a user belonging to the tenant;
determining, by an instance controller, whether an instance of the service is currently deployed for the tenant;
directing the user to the instance of the service that is currently deployed for the tenant in response to a determination that the instance of the service is currently deployed for the tenant;
deploying a new service instance of the service in response to a determination that the instance of the service is not currently deployed for the tenant;
providing the user with an access to the new service instance;
determining whether the service requested by the user belonging to the tenant is available from a service suite based on a service deployment context;
executing the service from the service suite in response to a determination that the service is available from the service suite;
in response to a determination that the service is to be executed from outside of the service suite, obtaining an address of an application programming interface (API);
forwarding a call to a requested service API via a proxy server using the address of the API; and
executing the service from outside of the service suite.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the tenant on-boarding data comprising instructions for:
user authentication methods;
tenant service subscriptions; and
service provisioning to tenant's users.

13. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising updating the address of the API inside the service suite.

14. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the service is a single-tenant application offered as software as a service (SaaS).

15. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the service is deployed in a container.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
process tenant on-boarding data for a tenant;
receive a request for a service from a user belonging to the tenant;
determine whether an instance of the service is currently deployed for the tenant;
direct the user to the instance of the service in response to a determination that the instance of the service is currently deployed;
deploy a new instance of the service in response to a determination that the instance of the service is not currently deployed;
provide the user with an access to the instance of the service;
monitor usage of the instance of the service and terminate the instance of the service if the instance of the service is idle for a pre-determined time period;
create a second instance of the service for the tenant in response to an overload of the instance of the service;
determine whether the service requested by th

Assignees

• Entit Software Llc
• Micro Focus Llc

Inventors

• Maes Stephane Herman
• Feyer Ulrich
• Natarajan Srikanth

Classifications

• H04L67/1031

  Controlling of the operation of servers by a load balancer, e.g. adding or removing servers that serve requests · CPC title

• H04W4/50 Primary

  Service provisioning or reconfiguring · CPC title

• H04L41/5054 Primary

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

• H04L67/63

  Routing a service request depending on the request content or context · CPC title

• H04L61/4511

  using domain name system [DNS] · CPC title