Dynamic association of application workload tiers to infrastructure elements in a cloud computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019034384-A1
Application number	US-201816115899-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 29, 2018
Priority date	Dec 16, 2014
Publication date	Jan 31, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for the dynamic association of components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure includes defining in memory of a host computing system a pattern that has an inventory of components of a multi-tier application. The method also includes associating each of the components with a corresponding tier label for an n-tier architecture. The method yet further includes loading the pattern into a pattern engine. Finally, the method includes deploying by the pattern engine each component of the pattern to a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

First claim

Having thus described the invention of the present application in detail and by reference to embodiments thereof, it will be apparent that modifications and variations are possible without departing from the scope of the invention defined in the appended claims as follows:

1 . A method for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure, the method comprising:
defining in memory of a host computing system a pattern comprising table of components, the table comprising a column of data fields, each data field identifying one of the components of the corresponding multi-tier application and a different column of different data fields, each different data field reflecting a corresponding tier label referring to specific virtual machines of specific tiers of the multi-tier application into which each identified one of the components is to be deployed and yet another column of further different fields; loading the pattern into a pattern engine; and, deploying by the pattern engine each component of the pattern to one of a public Internet layer, a Web layer or a data layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component by loading a first one of the components in the table of the pattern, identifying a corresponding tier label for the first one of the components and also a presence of a tag, and if the tag corresponds to a pre-specified tag, deploying the first one of the components but otherwise not deploying the first one of the components, and repeating the loading, identifying and deploying for each other one of the components in the table of the pattern.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each component of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

5 . A method for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure, the method comprising:
loading into memory of a computer a pattern configured for processing by a pattern engine executing in the memory of the computer; and, processing the pattern by the pattern engine to deploy individual components of the pattern to respective layers of an n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with each individual one of the components.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each of the individual components of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with each individual one of the components.

7 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

8 . The method of claim 5 , wherein each individual one of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

9 . A computer program product for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure, 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:
defining in memory of a host computing system a pattern comprising an inventory of components of a multi-tier application; associating each of the components with a corresponding tier label for an n-tier architecture; loading the pattern into a pattern engine; and, deploying by the pattern engine each component of the pattern to a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

10 . The computer program of claim 9 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each component of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component.

11 . The computer program of claim 9 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

12 . The computer program of claim 9 , wherein each of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

13 . A computer program product for dynamically associating components in a multi-tier application to different layers of a corresponding multi-tier application infrastructure, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory 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:
defining in memory of a host computing system a pattern comprising a table of components, the table comprising a column of data fields, each data field identifying one of the components of the corresponding multi-tier application and a different column of different data fields, each different data field reflecting a corresponding tier label referring to specific virtual machines of specific tiers of the multi-tier application into which each identified one of the components is to be deployed and yet another column of further different fields; loading the pattern into a pattern engine executing in the memory; and, deploying by the pattern engine each component of the pattern to one of a public Internet layer, a Web layer or a data layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with the component by loading a first one of the components in the table of the pattern, identifying a corresponding tier label for the first one of the components and deploying the first one of the components and repeating the loading, identifying and deploying for each other one of the components in the table of the pattern.

14 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the pattern engine deploys each of the individual components of the pattern to a virtual machine of a layer of the n-tier architecture corresponding to a tier label associated with each individual one of the components.

15 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the tier labels provide for a data tier and a Web tier.

16 . The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein each individual one of the components is further associated within the pattern with a tag such that the pattern engine only deploys those of the components having an association with the tag.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Apte Ajay A
• Brabson Roy F
• Kirby Iii Orvalle T
• Mcgee Jason R
• Moonen Scott C
• Woods Donald R

Classifications

• H04L41/5054

  Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components · CPC title

• G06F9/5072

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L41/0886

  Fully automatic configuration · CPC title

• G06F2009/45562

  Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances · CPC title

• G06F8/61

  Installation · CPC title