Facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016254957-A1
Application number	US-201315028460-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 30, 2013
Priority date	Oct 30, 2013
Publication date	Sep 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method of facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service includes generating a cloud service based on a lifecycle management topology, in which the cloud service is an autonomous management service, a self-management service, or combinations thereof. The method also includes establishing a number of management processes to be performed within the cloud service, in which the number of management processes comprise autonomous management processes, self-management processes, or combinations thereof. The cloud service includes an instantiation of the topology and a number of applications executable on the instantiation of the topology.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method of facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service, comprising:
generating a cloud service based on a lifecycle management topology, in which the cloud service is an autonomous management service, a self-management service, or combinations thereof; and establishing a number of management processes to be performed within the cloud service, in which the number of management processes comprise autonomous management processes, self-management processes, or combinations thereof; in which the cloud service comprises an instantiation of the topology and a number of applications executable on the instantiation of the topology.

2 . The method of claim 1 , in which an autonomous management service performs an operation based on a policy within a topology.

3 . The method of claim 2 , in which an autonomous management process comprises autonomous provisioning, autonomous remediation, or combinations thereof.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising developing an application using a programming model to, include code within the application, define policies within the application, or combinations thereof.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising executing a policy via a platform, to ensure that the application behaves autonomously.

6 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising including code within an application to establish monitoring, event handling, incident processing and self-remediation via a platform that exposes an application programming interface (API).

7 . The method of claim 1 , in which a self-management process comprises self-provision, self-configuration, self-monitoring, self-handling, self-remediation, self-updating, or combinations thereof.

8 . The method of claim 7 , in which self-configuration comprises executing provisioning policies, capabilities policies, requirements policies, or combinations thereof to configure the service.

9 . The method of claim 1 , in which an applications package is used to determine whether a service is a self-management service, an autonomous management service, or combinations thereof.

10 . A system for facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service, comprising:
a platform to support autonomous computing within a cloud service, the platform comprising:
a broker to generate a cloud service, in which the cloud service is an autonomous management service, a self-management service, or combinations thereof; and
a management module to establish a number of management processes to be performed within the cloud service, in which the number of management processes comprise autonomous management processes, self-management processes, or combinations thereof.

11 . The system of claim 10 , in which the broker generates a service by processing an applications package.

12 . The system of claim 11 , in which the applications package comprises a topology, a number of policies associated with the topology, and executables to perform a number of functions.

13 . The system of claim 10 , in which the self-management service comprise code to perform a self-management process.

14 . The system of claim 10 , in which the autonomous management applications comprise logic to, call an application programming interface (API) to execute a management process.

15 . A computer program product for facilitating autonomous computing within a cloud service, the computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage medium comprising computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:
computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, generate a cloud service based on a lifecycle management topology, in which the cloud service is an autonomous management service, a self-management service, or combinations thereof; and
computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, establish a number of management processes to be performed within the cloud service, in which the number of management processes autonomous management processes, self-management processes, or combinations thereof.

Assignees

• Hewlett Packard Entpr Dev Lp

Inventors

• Maes Stephane Herman

Classifications

• H04L67/10

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

• G06F16/25

  Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems · CPC title

• H04L41/12

  Discovery or management of network topologies · CPC title

• G06F9/5072 Primary

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L41/0886 Primary

  Fully automatic configuration · CPC title