Service Creation and Management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016085576-A1
Application number	US-201414493781-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 23, 2014
Priority date	Sep 23, 2014
Publication date	Mar 24, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for service creation and management. A processor can detect an event relating to a service, and access a service creation database to identify a recipe associated with the service. The recipe can define a resource to be used to provide the service. The processor can access an inventory to determine if the resource is available, identify a service control to control the service, instruct an infrastructure control to allocate virtual machines to host components of the service, and issue instructions to the service control. The instructions can instruct the service control to load service functions to the virtual machines.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A method comprising:
detecting, at a computing system comprising a processor, an event relating to a service; accessing, by the processor, a service creation database to identify a recipe associated with the service, the recipe defining a resource to be used to provide the service; accessing, by the processor, an inventory to determine if the resource is available; identifying, by the processor, a service control to control the service; instructing, by the processor, an infrastructure control to allocate virtual machines to host components of the service; and issuing, by the processor, instructions to the service control, wherein the instructions instruct the service control to load service functions to the virtual machines.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the event relating to the service comprises a capacity change associated with the service.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the event relating to the service comprises a request to create the service.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the infrastructure control allocates a virtual machine, loads an image with an embedded virtual service function to the virtual machine, and validates the image loaded to the virtual machine.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein the infrastructure control reports the event to an infrastructure data collection analysis and event handler process, and updates an infrastructure inventory to reflect allocation of the virtual machine.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the infrastructure control instructs a network control to create network transport to support the service.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the computing system executes an operations management controller, and wherein the computing system exposes an operations management application programming interface to support interactions with the infrastructure control and the service control.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the event comprises a request to create a new service, the request being received from one of a business support system and an operations support system.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the service control comprises determining that the service control does not exist, and creating the service control.

10 . A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
detecting an event relating to a service, accessing a service creation database to identify a recipe associated with the service, the recipe defining a resource to be used to provide the service, accessing an inventory to determine if the resource is available, identifying a service control to control the service, instructing an infrastructure control to allocate virtual machines to host components of the service, and issuing instructions to the service control, wherein the instructions instruct the service control to load service functions to the virtual machines.

11 . The computer storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the infrastructure control allocates a virtual machine, loads an image with an embedded virtual service function to the virtual machine, and validates the image loaded to the virtual machine.

12 . The computer storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the infrastructure control reports the event to an infrastructure data collection analysis and event handler process, and updates an infrastructure inventory to reflect allocation of the virtual machine.

13 . The computer storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the infrastructure control instructs a network control to create network transport to support the service.

14 . The computer storage medium of claim 10 , wherein identifying the service control comprises determining that the service control does not exist, and creating the service control.

15 . A method comprising:
detecting, at a computing system comprising a processor, an event relating to a service; accessing, by the processor, a policy and a graph to determine a responsive action to the event, the responsive action defining a resource to be used to provide the service; accessing, by the processor, an inventory to determine if the resource is available; instructing, by the processor, an infrastructure control to modify virtual machines that host components of the service; and modifying, by the processor, virtual service functions on the virtual machines.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the event relating to the service comprises a capacity change associated with the service, and wherein modifying the virtual service functions comprises creating the virtual service functions.

17 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the event relating to the service comprises a capacity change associated with the service, and wherein modifying the virtual service functions comprises de-allocating the virtual service functions.

18 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the event relating to the service comprises a capacity change associated with the service, and wherein modifying the virtual service functions comprises changing configurations of the virtual service functions.

19 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the event comprises a message received at the processor, the message being received from the service.

20 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising instructing a network control to modify network transport that supports the service.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Chastain Walter Cooper
• Cariello Frank
• Klein Reuben
• Smith Jr Paul Edward

Classifications

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F2009/45595

  Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F2009/4557

  Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing · CPC title

• G06F9/5077

  Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources (specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455) · CPC title

• G06F9/45558 Primary

  Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects · CPC title