Containerized build steps

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12072997-B2
Application number	US-202318469549-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2023
Priority date	Sep 19, 2016
Publication date	Aug 27, 2024
Grant date	Aug 27, 2024

Abstract

A method includes receiving a build request containing build step instructions from a user. The build step instructions specify a usage of containers within memory hardware for building an output container. The containers include at least one private container having private contents and/or at least one public container having public contents. The method also includes authenticating the user initiating the build request and determining whether the user is authorized to access the private containers. When the user is authenticated and authorized to access the private containers, the method includes obtaining the containers specified by the build step instructions from the memory hardware, executing the build step instructions to build the output container while using the received containers, and outputting the built output container.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a build request comprising build step instructions specifying a series of build steps for building an output container, the series of build steps comprising:
at least two parallel build steps that execute in parallel; and
at least one dependent build step comprising a dependency constraint specifying a prior build step from the series of build steps that must complete execution before commencing execution of the at least one dependent build step;

executing the series of build steps to generate build results; and
building the output container for the user device based on the build results.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises at least one of:
a container identifier;
an environment field; or
a dependency constraint.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the dependency constraint further specifies the container identifier of the prior build step.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the build step instructions specify a usage of a private container or a public container for each build step of the series of build steps to build the output container.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the series of build steps of the build step instructions specifies both a public source and a private source to provide instructions for building the output container.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises a status identifier indicating an execution status for a corresponding build step.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a notification indicating that the user is authenticated and authorized to access one or more private containers identified by a respective build step.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing each build step of the series of build steps uses one or more virtual machines.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the output container comprises a build step record comprising the series of build steps specified by the build step instructions of the build request and an order of execution of the series of build steps.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the build step record further comprises start timestamps each corresponding to a start time when execution of a respective build step began and end timestamps each corresponding to an ending time when execution of a respective build step completed.

11. A system comprising:
data processing hardware; and
memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed by the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a user device associated with a user, a build request comprising build step instructions specifying a series of build steps for building an output container, the series of build steps comprising:
at least two parallel build steps that execute in parallel; and
at least one dependent build step comprising a dependency constraint specifying a prior build step from the series of build steps that must complete execution before commencing execution of the at least one dependent build step;

executing the series of build steps to generate build results; and
building the output container for the user device based on the build results.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises at least one of:
a container identifier;
an environment field; or
a dependency constraint.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the dependency constraint further specifies the container identifier of the prior build step.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the build step instructions specify a usage of a private container or a public container for each build step of the series of build steps to build the output container.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the series of build steps of the build step instructions specifies both a public source and a private source to provide instructions for building the output container.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein each build step of the series of build steps comprises a status identifier indicating an execution status for a corresponding build step.

17. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a notification indicating that the user is authenticated and authorized to access one or more private containers identified by a respective build step.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein executing each build step of the series of build steps uses one or more virtual machines.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the output container comprises a build step record comprising the series of build steps specified by the build step instructions of the build request and an order of execution of the series of build steps.

20. The system of claim 19 , wherein the build step record further comprises start timestamps each corresponding to a start time when execution of a respective build step began and end timestamps each corresponding to an ending time when execution of a respective build step completed.

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Hall Jason
• Bendory David
• Asmuth John
• Zawalski Scott
• Dopson David

Classifications

• G06F8/70

  Software maintenance or management · CPC title

• G06F21/629

  to features or functions of an application · CPC title

• G06F21/31

  User authentication · CPC title

• G06F8/447

  Target code generation · CPC title

• G06F8/433

  Dependency analysis; Data or control flow analysis · CPC title