Integrated automated application deployment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11265202-B2
Application number	US-201615063515-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 8, 2016
Priority date	Dec 4, 2015
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A workflow-based cloud-management system incorporated within a cloud-computing facility having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, the workflow-based cloud-management system comprising:
an automated-application-release-management subsystem;
an infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem;
an automated-application-deployment integrator that includes
an application programming interface,
a service-provider interface,
entrypoint-translation components, and
entrypoint-implementation components; and

one or more automated-application-deployment subsystems that interface to the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

2. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the automated-application-release-management subsystem comprises:
a dashboard user interface;
an automated-application-release-management controller;
an interface to a workflow-execution engine; and
an artifact-storage-and-management subsystem.

3. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem comprises:
one or more user service catalogs;
one or more services and corresponding service implementations;
fabrics that abstract virtual cloud-computing-facility resources, including virtual processors, virtual networks, and virtual data-storage devices that, in turn, abstract physical cloud-computing-facility resources, including processors, networks, and data-storage devices; and
a graphical user interface through which users, including system administrators, distribute resources and services to users and groups of users, configure the cloud-computing-facility, and manage the cloud-computing-facility.

4. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the automated-application-release-management subsystem and the infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem include control logic at least partially implemented as workflows that are executed by a workflow-execution-engine subsystem.

5. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the application-deployment subsystems each comprises an integrated application-deployment facility that:
accesses one or more artifact repositories that store and logically organize binary files and other artifacts used to build complex cloud-resident applications; and
accesses automated tools that are used, along with workflows, to develop specific automated application-deployment tools that deploy cloud-resident applications within the cloud-computing facility.

6. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the application programming interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator includes entrypoints that represent access points to the application-deployment functionality, or a subset of the application-deployment functionality, access to which is provided by the entrypoints in the application programming interfaces of the one or more automated-application-deployment subsystems that interface to the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

7. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 6 wherein the application programming interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator includes entrypoints that represent access points to functionality implemented, at least is part, within the automated-application-deployment integrator.

8. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 7 wherein a portion of the functionality implemented, at least is part, within the automated-application-deployment integrator is not implemented in any of the one or more automated-application-deployment subsystems that interface to the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

9. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 7 wherein a portion of the functionality implemented, at least is part, within the automated-application-deployment integrator is implemented in only a proper subset any of two or more of the automated-application-deployment subsystems that interface to the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

10. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator includes those entrypoints of the application programming interfaces of the one or more automated-application-deployment subsystems that are called by the entrypoint-translation components and entrypoint-implementation components of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

11. The workflow-based cloud-management system of claim 1 wherein the workflow-based cloud-management system provides an automated-application-deployment-subsystem selection feature using which a system administrator selects a particular automated-application-deployment subsystem for supporting operation of the automated-application-release-management subsystem and infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem of the workflow-based cloud-management system.

12. A method that interfaces two or more automated-application-deployment subsystems to an automated-application-release-management-subsystem component and an infrastructure-management-and-administration-subsystem component of a workflow-based cloud-management system incorporated within a cloud-computing facility having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, the method comprising:
installing, within the cloud-computing facility, a workflow-based cloud-management system that includes the automated-application-release-management subsystem, the infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem, and an automated-application-deployment integrator; and
selecting one of two or more automated-application-deployment subsystems to support operation of the workflow-based cloud-management system.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the two or more application-deployment subsystems each comprises an integrated application-deployment facility that:
accesses one or more artifact repositories that store and logically organize binary files and other artifacts used to build complex cloud-resident applications; and
accesses automated tools that are used, along with workflows, to develop specific automated application-deployment tools that deploy cloud-resident applications within the cloud-computing facility.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the automated-application-deployment integrator comprises:
an application programming interface,
a service-provider interface,
entrypoint-translation components, and
entrypoint-implementation components.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the application programming interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator includes entrypoints that represent access points to the application-deployment functionality, or a subset of the application-deployment functionality, access to which is provided by the entrypoints in the application programming interfaces of the one or more automated-application-deployment subsystems that interface to the service-provider interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the application programming interface of the automated-application-deployment integrator includes entrypoints that represent access points to functionality implemented, at least is part, within the automated-application-deployment integrator.

17. The method of claim 16 w

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Khazanchi Rajesh
• Singh Servesh
• Saraf Rishi
• Govindaraju Agila
• Sinha Rakesh
• Jain Vishal
• Mankala Shyam Sundar Rao

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• H04L67/10

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

• H04L41/0246 Primary

  Exchanging or transporting network management information using the Internet; Embedding network management web servers in network elements; Web-services-based protocols · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• H04L41/5096

  wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications · CPC title