Methods and apparatus to implement cloud specific functionality in a cloud agnostic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11683232-B2
Application number	US-202117392126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 2, 2021
Priority date	Jul 1, 2019
Publication date	Jun 20, 2023
Grant date	Jun 20, 2023

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that implement cloud functionality in a cloud agnostic system. An example apparatus includes: at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: generate a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships; provide an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned; transmit a first provisioning request to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and in response to the cloud management platform selecting cloud resources, transmit a second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resources, the second provisioning request including constraints specific to the selected cloud resources.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one memory;
instructions in the apparatus; and
processor circuitry to execute the instructions to:
generate a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships;
provide an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned;
generate a first provisioning request based on the blueprint to partially provision the requested cloud resources;
transmit the first provisioning request that is platform agnostic to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and
in response to selection of a cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources by the cloud management platform, transmit a second provisioning request that is platform specific to the selected cloud resource, the second provisioning request generated based on a removal of the allocation flag from the blueprint and based on an insertion of constraints specific to the selected cloud resource into the blueprint, the second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resource.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the blueprint includes constraints specific to the requested cloud resources.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the components of requested cloud resources include at least one of a memory allocation size, a number of central processing units, and a desired cost.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to generate a notification via a user interface in response to receiving an indication the first provisioning request was unsuccessful.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to provide the allocation flag when the first provisioning request is incomplete.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to provide an application programming interface (API) to edit parameters of the blueprint.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause processor circuitry to at least:
generate a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships;
provide an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned;
generate a first provisioning request based on the blueprint to partially provision the requested cloud resources;
transmit the first provisioning request that is platform agnostic to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and
in response to selection of a cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources by the cloud management platform, transmit a second provisioning request that is platform specific to the selected cloud resource, the second provisioning request generated based on a removal of the allocation flag from the blueprint and based on an insertion of a constraint specific to the selected cloud resource into the blueprint, the second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resource.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the blueprint includes constraints specific to the requested cloud resources.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the components of requested cloud resources include at least one of a memory allocation size, a number of central processing units, and a desired cost.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor circuitry to generate a notification via a user interface in response to receiving an indication the first provisioning request was unsuccessful.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor circuitry to provide the allocation flag when the first provisioning request is incomplete.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 7 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor circuitry to provide an application programming interface (API) to edit parameters of the blueprint.

13. A method comprising:
generating, by executing an instruction with a processor, a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships;
providing, by executing an instruction with the processor, an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned;
generating, by executing an instruction with the processor, a first provisioning request based on the blueprint to partially provision the requested cloud resources;
transmitting, by executing an instruction with the processor, the first provisioning request that is platform agnostic to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and
transmitting, by executing an instruction with the processor, a second provisioning request that is platform specific to a selected cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources, the second provisioning request generated based on removing the allocation flag from the blueprint and inserting constraints specific to the selected cloud resource into the blueprint, the second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resource in response to the cloud management platform selecting the cloud resource.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the blueprint includes constraints specific to the requested cloud resources.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein the components of requested cloud resources include at least one of a memory allocation size, a number of central processing units, and a desired cost.

16. The method of claim 13 , further including generating a notification via a user interface in response to receiving an indication the first provisioning request was unsuccessful.

17. The method of claim 13 , further including providing the allocation flag when the first provisioning request is incomplete.

18. The method of claim 13 , further including providing an application programming interface (API) to edit parameters of the blueprint.

19. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein to provide the allocation flag to the blueprint includes modifying the blueprint to generate an allocation request that does not include configuration settings specific to a cloud provider.

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Aronov Evgeny
• Delcheva Anna
• Petkov Ivo
• Mitsov Georgi
• Dimitrov Alexander

Classifications

• H04L41/0893

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• H04L67/1097

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• H04L67/10

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

• H04L41/0895

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