System and method for orchestration of services for use with a cloud computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9357034-B2
Application number	US-201313970494-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2013
Priority date	Sep 7, 2012
Publication date	May 31, 2016
Grant date	May 31, 2016

Abstract

A system and method for orchestration of services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud platform enables provisioning of enterprise software applications within a cloud environment, including packaging enterprise applications as service definition packages (SDP), and instantiating the services using service management engines (SME). In an embodiment, an orchestration engine communicates with a plurality of SMEs to control the flow of service creation, provider dependency resolution, association of services and providers, and the life-cycle management of services within the cloud platform.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for orchestration of services for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising:
one or more computers including a processor, and a cloud environment executing thereon;
a platform component provided within the cloud environment, that supports provisioning for enterprise applications;
one or more service definition packages, for use with the platform component, wherein each service definition package includes a virtual assembly that defines a topology and a configuration for a set of virtual appliances comprising a running instance of a particular enterprise application component, and defines, for the particular enterprise application component, how the particular enterprise application component is deliverable as a service type within the platform component; and
an orchestration engine, which
receives the one or more service definition packages,
parses the one or more service definition packages to determine service characteristics and requirements, for the particular enterprise application component deliverable as a service type within the platform component,
determines, using the one or more service definition packages, one or more particular service types corresponding to the particular enterprise application component to be provisioned for use within the cloud environment,
selects, from one or more available service management engines, one or more service management engines that correspond to the one or more particular service types,
configures the one or more service management engines to support those one or more particular service types, including determining provider dependencies of the one or more corresponding service management engines, and
provisions the one or more particular service types.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein
each service definition package includes a virtual assembly that defines a topology and a configuration for a set of virtual appliances, and
wherein an enterprise application defined by its service definition package, can be instantiated as one or more services that are then accessible by other applications within the cloud environment.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orchestration engine communicates with a plurality of service management engines to control the flow of service creation, provider dependency resolution, association of services and providers, and life-cycle management of services within the cloud environment.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the available service management engines implement a service management interface that defines support for the corresponding service types and handles related service activities for the corresponding service types.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orchestration engine calls a configurable properties function of the one or more corresponding service management engines that exposes, for editing, configurable properties of the one or more corresponding service management engines.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the orchestration engine performs pre-provisioning association between the one or more corresponding service management engines.

7. A method of providing orchestration of services for use with a cloud computing environment, comprising:
providing one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon;
providing a platform component within the cloud environment, that supports provisioning for enterprise applications;
providing one or more service definition packages, for use with the platform component, wherein each service definition package includes a virtual assembly that defines a topology and a configuration for a set of virtual appliances comprising a running instance of a particular enterprise application component, and defines, for the particular enterprise application component, how the particular enterprise application component is deliverable as a service type within the platform component; and
providing an orchestration engine, which
receives one or more service definition packages,
parses the one or more service definition packages to determine service characteristics and requirements, for the particular enterprise application component deliverable as a service type within the platform component,
determines, using the one or more service definition packages, one or more particular service types corresponding to the particular enterprise application component to be provisioned for use within the cloud environment,
selects, from one or more available service management engines, one or more service management engines that correspond to the one or more particular service types,
configures the one or more service management engines to support those one or more particular service types, including determining provider dependencies of the one or more corresponding service management engines, and
provisions the one or more particular service types.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein
each service definition package includes a virtual assembly that defines a topology and a configuration for a set of virtual appliances, and
wherein an enterprise application defined by its service definition package, can be instantiated as one or more services that are then accessible by other applications within the cloud environment.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the orchestration engine communicates with a plurality of service management engines to control the flow of service creation, provider dependency resolution, association of services and providers, and life-cycle management of services within the cloud environment.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the available service management engines implement a service management interface that defines support for the corresponding service types and handles related service activities for the corresponding service types.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the orchestration engine calls a configurable properties function of the one or more corresponding service management engines that exposes, for editing, configurable properties of the one or more corresponding service management engines.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the orchestration engine performs pre-provisioning association between the one or more corresponding service management engines.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:
providing one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon;
providing a platform component within the cloud environment, that supports provisioning for enterprise applications;
providing one or more service definition packages, for use with the platform component, wherein each service definition package includes a virtual assembly that defines a topology and a configuration for a set of virtual appliances comprising a running instance of a particular enterprise application component, and defines, for the particular enterprise application component, how the particular enterprise application component is deliverable as a service type within the platform component; and
providing an orchestration engine, which
receives one or more service definition packages,
parses the one or more service definition packages to determine service characteristics and requirements, for the particular enterprise application component deliverable as a service type within the platform component,
determines, using the one or more service definition packages, one or more particular service types corresponding to the particular enterprise application component to be provisioned for u

Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Kumar Abhijit
• Ramu Jagadish
• Thyagarajan Sivakumar

Classifications

• G06F9/5072 Primary

  Grid computing · CPC title

• H04L67/32 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/60 Primary

  Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources (admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70) · CPC title