Workload deployment density management for a multi-stage computing architecture implemented within a multi-tenant computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016308955-A1
Application number	US-201615194142-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 27, 2016
Priority date	Nov 3, 2014
Publication date	Oct 20, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for workload deployment density management for a multi-stage architecture implemented within a multi-tenant computing environment. The method includes receiving different requests from different tenants of a multi-tenant computing environment to deploy respectively different application instances of respectively different computer programs into different nodes of the host computing system. The method also includes determining from each request an associated stage of a software lifecycle for a corresponding one of the application instances. Finally, the method includes deploying each of the application instances into a particular one of the nodes depending upon an associated stage of each of the application instances so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle.

First claim

1 . A method for workload deployment density management for a multi-stage computing architecture implemented within a multi-tenant computing environment, the method comprising:
receiving by the device a request from a tenant of a multi-tenant computing environment executing in memory of a host computing system of one or more physical servers each with memory and at least one processor, to deploy an application instance of a computer program into a particular one of different nodes of the host computing system; determining from the request by the device an associated stage of a software lifecycle for the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into one of the nodes depending upon an associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the nodes comprise at least a production node and a development node.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the nodes further comprise a quality assurance node.

4 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining by the device from the request a scaling policy for the the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into the one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the scaling policy.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining by the device from the request a known utilization of the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into the one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the known utilization.

6 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
determining by the device from the request a known utilization of the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into the one of the nodes depending not only upon the scaling policy and the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the known utilization.

7 . A multi-tenant data processing system configured for workload deployment density management for a multi-stage computing architecture, the system comprising:
a host computing system comprising multiple different host computers, each with memory and at least one processor; a computing environment defined by a multiplicity of computing nodes executing within the host computing system, each of the nodes providing an operating system configured to support the operation of different instances of different applications; a multi-tenant computing environment configured to utilize the computing nodes of the computing environment on behalf of different tenants; and, a node agent coupled to the multi-tenant computing environment, the agent comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computing system to respond to a request from one of the tenants to deploy an application instance into one of the nodes by determining from the request an associated stage of a software lifecycle for the application instance, and deploying the application instance into a particular one of the nodes depending upon an associated stage of the application instance so that the particular one of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the nodes comprise at least a production node and a development node.

9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein the nodes further comprise a quality assurance node.

10 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the program code is further enabled to determine from the request a scaling policy for the application instance and to deploy the application instance into the particular one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the scaling policy.

11 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the program code is further enabled to determine from the request a known utilization of the application instance and to deploy the application instance into the particular one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the known utilization.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the program code is further enabled to determine from the request a known utilization of the application instance and to deploy the application instance into the particular one of the nodes depending not only upon the scaling policy and the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the known utilization.

13 . A computer program product for workload deployment density management for a multi-stage computing architecture implemented within a multi-tenant computing environment, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:
receiving by the device a request from a tenant of a multi-tenant computing environment executing in memory of a host computing system of one or more physical servers each with memory and at least one processor, to deploy an application instance of a computer program into a particular one of different nodes of the host computing system; determining from the request by the device an associated stage of a software lifecycle for the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into one of the nodes depending upon an associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle.

14 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the nodes comprise at least a production node and a development node.

15 . The computer program product of claim 14 , wherein the nodes further comprise a quality assurance node.

16 . The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining by the device from the request a scaling policy for the the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into the one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that each of the nodes hosts different application instances for different tenants of a common stage of the software lifecycle, but also upon the scaling policy.

17 . The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising:
determining by the device from the request a known utilization of the application instance; and, deploying by the device the application instance into the one of the nodes depending not only upon the associated stage of the application instance so that

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Dingsor Andrew D
• Kaplinger Todd E
• Rheinheimer Michael R
• Shachor Gal
• Spector Artem

Classifications

• G06F8/60 Primary

  Software deployment · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

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

• G06F9/5083

  Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system · CPC title

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/01

  Protocols · CPC title