Deployment of cloud infrastructures using a cloud management platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11755301-B2
Application number	US-202117386418-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2021
Priority date	Jul 27, 2021
Publication date	Sep 12, 2023
Grant date	Sep 12, 2023

Abstract

This disclosure relates generally to creating and managing cloud infrastructure, and more specifically, integrating one or more cloud infrastructure tools for building cloud infrastructures. An example method includes, receiving a request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform; transmitting configuration instructions associated with a cloud infrastructure tool to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform to deploy the cloud infrastructure; receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions; and reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on the deployment state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. 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 request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform;
transmitting first configuration instructions associated with a cloud infrastructure tool to a container orchestration platform to preview a deployment of the cloud infrastructure;
applying one or more policies to the deployment of the cloud infrastructure running on the container orchestration platform;
transmitting second configuration instructions associated with the cloud infrastructure tool to the container orchestration platform for execution by one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform to deploy the cloud infrastructure;
receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions by the one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform; and
reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider based on the deployment state, wherein the container orchestration platform is separate and distinct from the cloud management platform and the cloud service provider.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors of the server are further configured to carry out steps that include:
prior to transmitting the second configuration instructions, validating the cloud infrastructure based on resources requested by the deployment of the cloud infrastructure on the container orchestration platform.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the second configuration instructions transmitted to the container orchestration platform are executed at one or more command line interfaces.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein the deployment state is received from the cloud service provider through the one or more command line interfaces.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors of the server are further configured to carry out steps that include:
receiving a configuration file associated with the cloud infrastructure tool, wherein the configuration file includes a description of a desired state of the cloud infrastructure for the cloud service provider; and
creating a cloud template based on the configuration file, wherein the configuration instructions transmitted to the cloud orchestration platform are incorporated within the cloud template.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the configuration instructions include one or more configuration instructions included in the configuration file.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the cloud template includes configuration instructions for accessing one or more cloud resources used for establishing the cloud infrastructure.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the deployment state is received from the cloud orchestration platform as log data generated by at least one command line interface instance running on the cloud orchestration platform.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors of the server are further configured to initiate creation of a task on the container orchestration platform, wherein the task is used to execute the configuration instructions received from the cloud management platform.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the configuration instructions reference a plurality of cloud resources included in the cloud infrastructure.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the configuration instructions define a cloud zone from which to select the plurality of cloud resources.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the cloud management provider is configured to manage a plurality of cloud infrastructures located on a plurality of cloud service providers.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein deploying the cloud infrastructure comprises updating the cloud infrastructure already running on the cloud service provider.

14. A computer implemented method, comprising:
at a cloud management platform:
receiving a request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform;
transmitting first configuration instructions associated with a cloud infrastructure tool to a container orchestration platform to preview a deployment of the cloud infrastructure;
applying one or more policies to the deployment of the cloud infrastructure running on the container orchestration platform;
transmitting second configuration instructions associated with the infrastructure tool to the container orchestration platform for execution 1 a one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform to deploy the cloud infrastructure;
receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions by the one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform; and
reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider based on the deployment state, wherein the container orchestration platform is separate and distinct from the cloud management platform and the cloud service provider.

15. The computer implemented method of claim 14 , wherein the deployment state is received from the cloud orchestration platform as log data generated by at least one command line interface instance running on the cloud orchestration platform.

16. A server associated with a cloud management platform, the server comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
receiving a request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform;
transmitting first configuration instructions associated with a cloud infrastructure tool to a container orchestration platform to preview a deployment of the cloud infrastructure;
applying one or more policies to the deployment of the cloud infrastructure running on the container orchestration platform;
transmitting second configuration instructions associated with the infrastructure tool to the container orchestration platform for execution by one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform to deploy the cloud infrastructure;
receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions by the one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform; and
reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on the deployment state, wherein the container orchestration platform is separate and distinct from the cloud management platform and the cloud service provider.

Assignees

• Vmware Inc

Inventors

• Holzman Danny
• Duddukuri Rambabu
• Singh Kiran Krishna
• McDonough Kathleen

Classifications

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F8/71

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