Intelligent management of cloud infrastructures using a cloud management platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11431563-B1
Application number	US-202117386416-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jul 27, 2021
Priority date	Jul 27, 2021
Publication date	Aug 30, 2022
Grant date	Aug 30, 2022

Abstract

This relates generally to create and manage a cloud infrastructure using a cloud infrastructure tool. An example method includes, at a server associated with a cloud management platform, receiving a configuration file associated with a cloud infrastructure tool describing a desired state of a cloud infrastructure; creating a cloud template based on the configuration file; determining cloud resources for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure based on the cloud template; for each of the cloud resources: determining a type of the cloud resource; identifying a native resource associated with the cloud management platform based on the type of the resource; mapping an identification of the native resource to the cloud resource; and storing the mapping between the cloud resource and the native resource in a non-native format; and displaying a graphical user interface configured to display a topology for the cloud resources and the cloud infrastructure tool.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method performed on a server associated with a cloud management platform, comprising:
receiving a configuration file associated with a cloud infrastructure tool describing a desired state of a cloud infrastructure for one or more cloud service providers;
creating a cloud template based on content from the configuration file;
determining one or more cloud resources for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure based on the cloud template;
for each of the one or more cloud resources:
determining a type of the cloud resource;
identifying a native resource associated with the cloud management platform based on the type of the resource;
mapping an identification of the native resource to the cloud resource; and
storing the mapping between the cloud resource and the native resource in a native format within the cloud management platform; and

displaying a graphical user interface configured to display a topology for the one or more cloud resources and the cloud infrastructure tool.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the one or more cloud resources is at least one of a data processing, a memory, a network, and a storage component for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining one or more actions for managing the one or more cloud resources; and
displaying, on the graphical user interface, the one or more actions for managing the one or more cloud resources.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a request to an update a resource, wherein the request to an update the resource is associated with an action selected by a user within the graphical user interface;
determining an identification of the resource within the cloud management platform;
determining whether the identification is mapped to a non-native cloud resource associated to the cloud infrastructure tool; and
in accordance with determining that the identification is mapped to the non-native cloud resource associated to the cloud infrastructure tool:
performing the update to the non-native cloud resource using the cloud infrastructure tool.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein performing the update to the non-native cloud resource using the cloud infrastructure tool comprises:
invoking a Command Line Interface (CLI) associated with the cloud infrastructure tool for performing the update to the non-native cloud resource, wherein the CLI uses at least one of create, read, update, or delete operations to perform the update to the non-native cloud resource.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein the update to the non-native cloud resource is at least one of powering of the non-native cloud resource, powering on the non-native cloud resource, deleting the non-native cloud resource, and updating lease of the non-native cloud resource.

7. The computer-implemented method as recited of claim 1 , wherein creating the cloud template based on content from the configuration file comprises:
parsing the configuration file to determine the desired state of the cloud infrastructure for the one or more cloud service providers;
identifying one or more cloud resources, one or more resource providers, and one or more plugins for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure, wherein the each of the one or more resource providers is a cloud service provider that delivers the one or more cloud resources;
creating a script incorporating the identified one or more cloud resources, one or more resource providers, and one or more plugins; and
incorporating the script into a native template to create the cloud template.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein determining the type of the cloud resource comprises:
obtaining one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) associated with the one or more cloud service providers; and
identifying the type based on the one or more APIs.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein displaying a graphical interface showing topology involving the one or more cloud resources and the cloud infrastructure tool comprises:
displaying the cloud infrastructure tool as a parent component within the graphical interface; and
displaying each of the one or more cloud resources as a child component associated to the parent component.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions configured to be executed by one or more processors of a server associated with a cloud management platform to carry out steps that include:
receiving a configuration file associated with a cloud infrastructure tool describing a desired state of a cloud infrastructure for one or more cloud service providers;
creating a cloud template based on content from the configuration file;
determining one or more cloud resources for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure based on the cloud template;
for each of the one or more cloud resources:
determining a type of the cloud resource;
identifying a native resource associated with the cloud management platform based on the type of the resource;
mapping an identification of the native resource to the cloud resource; and
storing the mapping between the cloud resource and the native resource in a native format within the cloud management platform; and

displaying a graphical user interface configured to display a topology for the one or more cloud resources and the cloud infrastructure tool.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 10 , wherein at least one of the one or more cloud resources is at least one of a data processing, a memory, a network, and a storage component for achieving the desired state of the cloud infrastructure.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 10 , further comprising:
determining one or more actions for managing the one or more cloud resources; and
displaying, on the graphical user interface, the one or more actions for managing the one or more cloud resources.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving a request to an update a resource, wherein the request to an update the resource is associated with an action selected by a user within the graphical user interface;
determining an identification of the resource within the cloud management platform;
determining whether the identification is mapped to a non-native cloud resource associated to the cloud infrastructure tool; and
in accordance with determining that the identification is mapped to the non-native cloud resource associated to the cloud infrastructure tool:
performing the update to the non-native cloud resource using the cloud infrastructure tool.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 13 , wherein performing the update to the non-native cloud resource using the cloud infrastructure tool comprises:
invoking a Command Line Interface (CLI) associated with the cloud infrastructure tool for performing the update to the non-native cloud resource.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 14 , wherein the CLI uses at least one of create, read, update, or delete operations to perform an update to the non-native cloud resource.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as recited in claim 13 , wherein the update to the non-na

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Holzman Danny
• Duddukuri Rambabu
• Singh Kiran Krishna
• Chalavadi Rajesh
• Nguyen Hongvan
• Joshi Rohit

Classifications

• H04L41/5048 Primary

  Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates · CPC title

• H04L41/12

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title

• H04L41/0843

  based on generic templates · CPC title

• H04L41/22

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• H04L41/0813 Primary

  characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings · CPC title