Light-weight cloud application platform

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9866433-B1
Application number	US-201514949728-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Nov 23, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for deploying and using a light-weight cloud application platform. In one aspect, a method includes providing a deployment tool configured to deploy a light-weight cloud application platform in an execution environment in response to a user command that specifies the environment, and to create one or more instances of a cloud application executing on the light-weight cloud application platform in response to a user command that specifies a container image that includes the application. The deployment tool receives a first user command that specifies the execution environment. In response, the deployment tool deploys components of the light-weight cloud application platform, including a scheduling subsystem and a routing subsystem. The deployment tool receives a second user command that specifies a location of the container image. In response, instances of the cloud application are deployed without receiving further user commands.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
providing a deployment tool configured to deploy a light-weight cloud application platform in an execution environment in response to a user command that specifies the execution environment, and to create one or more instances of a cloud application executing on the light-weight cloud application platform in response to a user command that specifies a container image that includes the cloud application;
receiving, by the deployment tool, a first user command that specifies the execution environment;
in response to receiving the first user command, deploying, by the deployment tool, a plurality of components of the light-weight cloud application platform, including:
a scheduling subsystem comprising:
a plurality of execution engines, each execution engine being installed on a particular computing instance of the execution environment;
one or more executors, each executor being operable to receive a recipe comprising one or more platform independent, resource agnostic commands, each command corresponding to a requested service to be performed by one or the execution engines in the execution environment, and

a routing subsystem that is operable to maintain a routing table for routing requests to individual instances of the cloud application;

receiving, by the deployment tool, a second user command that specifies a location of the container image that includes the cloud application;
in response to receiving the second user command, deploying a plurality of instances of the cloud application without receiving further user commands, including:
providing a request to the scheduling system to schedule execution of one or more instances of the cloud application, and
providing a request to the routing subsystem to register the plurality of instances of the cloud application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the routing subsystem receives communication requests and routes the communication requests to individual instances of the cloud application.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
receiving, by the routing subsystem of the deployed light-weight cloud application platform, a request to access the cloud application; and
routing, by the routing subsystem, the request to an individual instance of the cloud application.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of components of the light-weight cloud application platform comprises:
a logging subsystem that is operable to attach to execution engines hosting one or more instances of the cloud application and stream log messages from the execution engines.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising:
receiving, by the deployment tool, a third user command that specifies a name of the cloud application;
in response to receiving the third user command, providing a request to the logging subsystem to attach to the execution engines hosting one or more instances of the cloud application.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the execution environment is a simulated cloud computing platform hosted by a single physical computing device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the execution environment is a cloud computing platform hosted by a cloud computing service.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising:
in response to receiving the first user command, identifying, by the deployment tool, user credentials for the cloud computing service; and
automatically using the user credentials to deploy the components of the light-weight cloud application platform in the cloud computing platform hosted by the cloud computing service without receiving further user commands from the user.

9. A system, comprising:
a data processing apparatus; and
a memory storage apparatus in data communication with the data processing apparatus, the memory storage apparatus storing instructions executable by the data processing apparatus and that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
providing a deployment tool configured to deploy a light-weight cloud application platform in an execution environment in response to a user command that specifies the execution environment, and to create one or more instances of a cloud application executing on the light-weight cloud application platform in response to a user command that specifies a container image that includes the cloud application;
receiving, by the deployment tool, a first user command that specifies the execution environment;
in response to receiving the first user command, deploying, by the deployment tool, a plurality of components of the light-weight cloud application platform, including:
a scheduling subsystem comprising:
a plurality of execution engines, each execution engine being installed on a particular computing instance of the execution environment;
one or more executors, each executor being operable to receive a recipe comprising one or more platform independent, resource agnostic commands, each command corresponding to a requested service to be performed by one or the execution engines in the execution environment, and

a routing subsystem that is operable to maintain a routing table for routing requests to individual instances of the cloud application;

receiving, by the deployment tool, a second user command that specifies a location of the container image that includes the cloud application;
in response to receiving the second user command, deploying a plurality of instances of the cloud application without receiving further user commands, including:
providing a request to the scheduling system to schedule execution of one or more instances of the cloud application, and
providing a request to the routing subsystem to register the plurality of instances of the cloud application.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the routing subsystem receives communication requests and routes the communication requests to individual instances of the cloud application.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving, by the routing subsystem of the deployed light-weight cloud application platform, a request to access the cloud application; and
routing, by the routing subsystem, the request to an individual instance of the cloud application.

12. The system of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of components of the light-weight cloud application platform comprises:
a logging subsystem that is operable to attach to execution engines hosting one or more instances of the cloud application and stream log messages from the execution engines.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving, by the deployment tool, a third user command that specifies a name of the cloud application;
in response to receiving the third user command, providing a request to the logging subsystem to attach to the execution engines hosting one or more instances of the cloud application.

14. The system of claim 9 , wherein the execution environment is a simulated cloud computing platform hosted by a single physical computing device.

15. The system of claim 9 , wherein the execution environment is a cloud computing platform hosted by a cloud computing service.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:
in response to receiving the first user command, identifying, by the deployment tool, user credentials for the cloud computing service; and
automatically using the user credentials to deploy the components of the light-weight cloud application platform in the cloud computing platform hosted by the clou

Assignees

• Pivotal Software Inc

Inventors

• Fakhouri Onsi Joe
• Bayer James Thomas
• Watters James Jacob

Classifications

• H04L45/56

  Routing software · CPC title

• H04L41/0806 Primary

  for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play · CPC title

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title

• H04L67/10

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