Cloud service management system

• US 10,243,875 B2
• Filed: 12/03/2012
• Issued: 03/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Mandaleeka, Lakshminarayana, Tripp, Travis S., Maes, Stephane Herman, Schloss, Rheid, Badem, Serdar
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Application Number:
  US14/646,857
• Publication Number:
  US 20150304240A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,304 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A system includes a cloud computing system. The cloud computing system includes a continuous delivery system to enable design and deployment of a cloud service in the cloud computing system. The cloud computing system also includes a cloud services system to enable access and consumption of a service offering associated with the cloud service by a user. The cloud computer system further includes a cloud service management system that is executed on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The cloud service management system can integrate the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system over the cloud computing system to provide the design and the deployment of the cloud service and publication of the cloud service to the cloud services system.

Claims

1. A cloud computing system comprising:

a continuous delivery system to enable design and deployment of a cloud service in the cloud computing system;

a cloud services system to enable access and consumption of a service offering associated with the cloud service by a user;

a cloud service management system that is executed on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the cloud service management system to integrate the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system over the cloud computing system to provide the design and the deployment of the cloud service and publication of the cloud service to the cloud services system,

wherein the cloud service management system comprises an adapter system to generate service model data associated with accessibility of the cloud service based on service design data associated with the deployment of the cloud service via a software adapter associated with protocols of the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system, and

wherein the service design data comprises infrastructure data associated with host configuration of the cloud service and feature data corresponding to features of the cloud service, the cloud service management system to translate the infrastructure data into access data for a service delivery layer of the cloud services system and to translate the feature data into publication data for publication of the cloud service into a service consumption layer of the cloud services system based on database data corresponding to an existing cloud service.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the continuous delivery system comprises:

a service design system to generate the service design data associated with the design of the cloud service via a user portal; and

a continuous delivery service publisher to publish the service design data to the cloud service management system and to a service platform to host the cloud service.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the user portal is further to interact with a graphical user interface communicatively coupled to a service platform that hosts the cloud service designed and deployed by the continuous delivery system to implement the continuous delivery system.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the user portal is further to initiate changes to the cloud service based on accessing the cloud service at the service platform via the cloud service management system based on infrastructure data stored on the cloud service management system.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein the user portal comprises a user interface to enable at least one of the user and a cloud service provider to browse a service catalog, order the service offering associated with the service catalog, deploy the cloud service as the respective service offering, and manage a subscription associated with the cloud service.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a database that comprises a service catalog to store the service offering associated with the cloud service, the cloud service management system being to generate the service offering and to publish the service offering to the database based on service design data generated by the continuous delivery system; and

a service portal corresponding to the cloud services system to access the database for selection of the service offering from the service catalog via a user interface to enable the access and the consumption of the service offering.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the cloud service management system is to associate access data corresponding to a service platform that hosts the cloud service with the service offering upon publishing the service offering to the database, the service portal being to access the service platform to consume the cloud service in response to selection of the service offering from the catalog.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein upon the service offer being selected via the user interface, subscription instructions associated with the cloud service are executed to provide delivery functions associated with the continuous delivery system for delivery of the cloud service and to provide subsequent lifecycle management of an element of the cloud service.

9. The cloud computing system of claim 1, wherein the continuous delivery system, the cloud services system, and the cloud service management system are separate systems,

wherein the continuous delivery system is not part of the cloud services system or the cloud service management system,

wherein the cloud services system is not part of the continuous delivery system or the cloud service management system,

and wherein the cloud service management system is not part of the continuous delivery system or the cloud services system.

10. The cloud computing system of claim 1, wherein the cloud service management system provides for design and deployment of the cloud service via the continuous delivery system, and publication of the cloud service to the cloud services system for access and consumption of the cloud service, without knowledge of implementation details of hardware and software associated with the cloud services system.

11. The cloud computing system of claim 1, wherein the cloud service management system provides for design and deployment of the cloud service via the continuous delivery system agnostically with respect to protocols and databases associated with the cloud services system.

12. The cloud computing system of claim 1, wherein the cloud management system is to integrate the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system by:

translating service design data to service model data via an adapter based on separate protocols associated with the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system;

publishing a service offering associated with the cloud service to a database based on the service model data; and

associating access data corresponding to a service platform with the service offering upon publishing the service offering to the database.

13. The cloud computing system of claim 12, wherein the continuous delivery system generates the service design data,

and wherein the cloud services system comprises the database and the service platform.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing program code executable by a cloud service management system to integrate a continuous delivery system with a cloud services system in a cloud computing system by:

receiving service design data associated with a cloud service having been deployed to a service platform in the cloud computing system via a user portal that implements the continuous delivery system;

generating service model data based on the service design data via an adapter; and

publishing a service offering corresponding to the cloud service to a database associated with the cloud services system based on the service model data to enable access and consumption of the cloud service via a service portal,

wherein generating the service model data comprises translating the service design data into the service model data via the adapter based on separate protocols associated with the continuous delivery system and the cloud service system.

15. The medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the service design data comprises receiving infrastructure data associated with host configuration of the cloud service and receiving feature data corresponding to features of the cloud service;

wherein generating the service model data comprises generating access data corresponding to the infrastructure data and generating publication data corresponding to the feature data; and

wherein publishing the service offering comprises providing the access data to a service delivery layer of the cloud services system and providing the publication data to a service consumption layer of the cloud services system based on database data corresponding to an existing cloud service.

16. The medium of claim 14, wherein the program code is executable by the cloud service management system to integrate the continuous delivery system with the cloud services system by further:

associating access data corresponding to the service platform that hosts the cloud service with the service offering upon publishing the service offering to the database; and

accessing the service platform to enable consumption of the cloud service in response to selection of the service offering from the catalog at the service portal.

17. A cloud computing system comprising:

a continuous delivery system comprising a user portal to generate service design data corresponding to design and deployment of a cloud service on a service platform in the cloud computing system;

a cloud services system comprising;

a service platform to enable access and consumption of the cloud service from the service platform by a user;

a database communicatively coupled to the service platform to enable selection of a service offering corresponding to the cloud service; and

a cloud service management system that is executed on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the cloud service management system to;

integrate the continuous delivery system and the cloud services systems by translating the service design data to service model data via an adapter based on separate protocols associated with the continuous delivery system and the cloud services system,

a service offering associated with the cloud service to the database based on the service model data, and

access data corresponding to the service platform with the service offering upon publishing the service offering to the database,

wherein the service design data comprises infrastructure data associated with host configuration of the cloud service and feature data corresponding to features of the cloud service, the cloud service management system to translate the infrastructure data into access data for a service delivery layer of the cloud service system and to translate the feature data into publication data for publication of the cloud service into a service consumption layer of the cloud services system based on database data corresponding to an exiting cloud service.