Deployment of cloud infrastructures using a cloud management platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12541351-B2
Application number	US-202318227825-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 28, 2023
Priority date	Jul 27, 2021
Publication date	Feb 3, 2026
Grant date	Feb 3, 2026

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 to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform, the configuration instructions directing the one or more containers 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:
in response to receiving a configuration file associated with a cloud infrastructure tool, wherein the configuration file includes a description of a desired state of a cloud infrastructure for a cloud service provider, creating a cloud template based on the configuration file, wherein the cloud template includes one or more configuration instructions included in the configuration file and associated with the cloud infrastructure tool; and in response to receiving a request to deploy the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider based on the cloud template of the cloud management platform: transmitting the configuration instructions to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform, the configuration instructions directing the one or more containers to deploy the cloud infrastructure; and reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider, which is received from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions.

2 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting the configuration instructions to the container orchestration platform for execution over a command line interface associated with the cloud infrastructure tool, the configuration instructions running in the command line interface to direct the one or more containers to deploy the cloud infrastructure.

3 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2 , the container orchestration platform having multiple command line interface instances associated with the cloud infrastructure tool, each command line interface instance running in one of the one or more containers, wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting different ones of the configuration instructions to the container orchestration platform for execution over respective ones of the command line interface instances, each of the different configuration instructions running in a respective one of the command line interface instances to direct each respective container to deploy a different cloud infrastructure.

4 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the container orchestration platform is separate and distinct from the cloud service provider.

5 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the configuration instructions are second configuration instructions and wherein the one or more processors of the server are further configured to transmit first configuration instructions associated with the cloud infrastructure tool to the container orchestration platform to generate a preview of a deployment of the cloud infrastructure to the cloud service provider.

6 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the one or more processors of the server are further configured to enforce policies associated with the cloud infrastructure following transmission of the first configuration instructions to the container orchestration platform.

7 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , 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 container orchestration platform as log data generated by at least one command line interface instance running on the container 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 platform 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: in response to receiving a configuration file associated with a cloud infrastructure tool, wherein the configuration file includes a description of a desired state of a cloud infrastructure for a cloud service provider, creating a cloud template based on the configuration file, wherein the cloud template includes one or more configuration instructions included in the configuration file and associated with the cloud infrastructure tool; and in response to receiving a request to deploy the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider based on the cloud template of the cloud management platform: transmitting the configuration instructions to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform, the configuration instructions directing the one or more containers to deploy the cloud infrastructure; and reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider, which is received from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions.

15 . The computer implemented method of claim 14 , wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting the configuration instructions to the container orchestration platform for execution over a command line interface associated with the cloud infrastructure tool, the configuration instructions running in the command line interface to direct the one or more containers to deploy the cloud infrastructure.

16 . The computer implemented method of claim 15 , the container orchestration platform having multiple command line interface instances associated with the cloud infrastructure tool, each command line interface instance running in one of the one or more containers, wherein the transmitting further comprises transmitting different ones of the configuration instructions to the container orchestration platform for execution over respective ones of the command line interface instances, each of the different configuration instructions running in a respective one of the command line interface instances to direct each respective container to deploy a different cloud infrastructure.

17 . 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 in

Assignees

• VMware LLC

Inventors

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

Classifications

• G06F8/71

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

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title