Separation of pod provisioning and service provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9501541-B2
Application number	US-201313844018-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 15, 2013
Priority date	Sep 7, 2012
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

A method for POD provisioning and service provisioning is disclosed. The method may comprise storing, by a cloud infrastructure system, subscription order information from a customer identifying a service from a set of cloud services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, wherein the subscription order information includes customer-specific configuration. Additionally, the method may comprise determining, by a computing device from the one or more computing devices, a service associated with the subscription order information. Moreover, the method may comprise mapping a pre-provisioned anonymous deployment to the subscription order information, wherein the pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is specifically pre-provisioned for the determined service. Furthermore, the method may comprise creating, by a computing device from the one or more computing devices, a service instance specifically for the customer by configuring the pre-provisioned anonymous deployment with the customer-specific configuration.

First claim

That which is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
storing, by a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, subscription order information associated with a customer, the subscription order information identifying a first service from a set of cloud services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, wherein the subscription order information includes a customer-specific configuration for the first service identified by the subscription order information;
providing a first set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a first service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the first set comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the first service type;
providing a second set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a second service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the second set comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the second service type;
determining, by the one or more computing devices, that the first service identified by the subscription order information is associated with a first service type;
in response to the determining, selecting, by the one or more computing devices, a first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment for enabling the first service; and
creating, by the one or more computing devices, a service instance using the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment based on the subscription order information associated with the customer, wherein the creating includes customizing the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment with the customer-specific configuration.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first service is a database service, and wherein the deployment includes one or more virtual machines (VMs) created using a virtual assembly builder, and wherein the method further comprises:
creating a deployment plan file, wherein the deployment plan file includes configuration information for injecting the customer-specific configuration into the one or more VMs.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
creating a virtual assembly builder home to allow parallel virtual assembly builder operations.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is for a multi-tenant service, and wherein the multi-tenant service includes service instances for a plurality of customers.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the multi-tenant service is a database service instance, and wherein multiple schemas are included in the database service instance, wherein each of the schemas is associated with a different customer.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is for a single-tenant service wherein the single-tenant service is a Java instance for a particular customer.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment includes one or more software resources, one or more hardware resources, or a combination thereof for enabling the service of the service type.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
enabling the first service identified by the subscription order information by assigning the created service instance to the customer based on the pre-provisioned anonymous deployment.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is created prior to the subscription order information being stored.

10. A system comprising:
one or more computing devices configured to offer a set of cloud services;
a memory configured to store subscription order information associated with a customer, the subscription order information identifying a first service from a set of cloud services, wherein the subscription order information includes a customer-specific configuration for the first service identified by the subscription order information; and
wherein the one or more computing devices is configured to:
provide a first set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a first service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the first set comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the first service type;
provide a second set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a second service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the second set comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the second service type;
determine that the first service identified by the subscription order information is associated with a first service type;
in response to the determining, select a first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment for enabling the first service; and
create a service instance using the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment based on the subscription order information associated with the customer, wherein the creating includes customizing the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment with the customer-specific configuration.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first service is a database service, and the deployment includes one or more virtual machines (VMs) created using a virtual assembly builder, and wherein the method further configured to:
create a deployment plan file, wherein the deployment plan file includes configuration information for injecting the customer-specific configuration into the one or more VMs.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more computing devices are further configured to:
create a virtual assembly builder home to allow parallel virtual assembly builder operations.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is for a multi-tenant service, wherein the multi-tenant service includes service instances for a plurality of customers.

14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment is for a single-tenant service, wherein the single-tenant service is a Java instance for a particular customer.

15. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for a cloud infrastructure system configured to offer a set of cloud services, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by one or more computing devices in the cloud infrastructure system, cause the one or more computing devices to:
store subscription order information associated with a customer identifying a first service from a set of cloud services, wherein the subscription order information includes a customer-specific configuration for the first service identified by the subscription order information;
provide a first set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a first service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the first set comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the first service type;
provide a second set of pre-provisioned anonymous deployments for a second service type, each pre-provisioned anonymous deployment in the second set b comprising one or more resources enabling a service instance of the second service type;
determine that the first service identified by the subscription order information is associated with a first service type;
in response to the determining, select a first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment from the first set for enabling the first service; and
create a service instance using the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment based on the subscription order information associated with the customer, wherein the creating includes customizing the selected first pre-provisioned anonymous deployment with the customer-specific configuration.

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Assignees

• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Doering Jeffrey Ryan
• Sen Nirmalya
• Gao Ying
• Bhatia Khushboo
• Arun Gopalan

Classifications

• G06Q10/06315 Primary

  Needs-based resource requirements planning or analysis · CPC title

• H04L47/70

  Admission control; Resource allocation · CPC title

• H04L63/20

  for managing network security; network security policies in general (filtering policies H04L63/0227) · CPC title

• G06Q10/0633

  Workflow analysis · CPC title

• G06F17/30283

  Physics · mapped topic