Systems and methods for continuous configuration deployment

• US 10,263,845 B2
• Filed: 10/18/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Palantir Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Hall, Nicholas, Muraj, Hamza, Free, Jason, Montgomery, John, Schweiger, James, LeVan, Matthew, Montague, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Park, Jeong S
• Application Number:
  US15/787,335
• Publication Number:
  US 20180337821A1
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/08 Configuration management of networks or network elements address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/085 Retrieval of network configuration; Tracking network configuration history
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0859 by keeping history of different configuration generations or by rolling back to previous configuration versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for providing continuous configuration deployment. A configuration definition object may be obtained from a remote datastore. The obtained configuration definition object may be stored in a local datastore. The configuration definition object may be obtained and stored in advance of a scheduled maintenance. The configuration definition object may be obtained in response to the configuration definition object being committed to the remote datastore. The configuration definition object may be used to generate different configuration objects. A configuration object may be generated from the configuration definition object and one or more system characteristics. A service request may be received, and the configuration object may be executed to perform a configuration of a computing system.

Claims

1. A sub-server system comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the sub-server system to perform;

providing, over a communication network, a configuration request for a configuration definition object to a first remote sub-server system, the configuration request being forwarded by the first remote sub-server system to a second remote sub-server system in response to the first remote sub-server system determining that it cannot satisfy the configuration request for the configuration definition object;

obtaining, based on the providing the configuration request to the first remote sub-server system, a configuration definition object over the communication network from a first datastore of the second remote sub-server system in response to the second remote sub-server system determining that it can satisfy the configuration request for the configuration definition object, the configuration definition object automatically obtained by the second remote sub-server system from a central server system in response to a modification of the configuration definition object being committed to a second datastore of the central server system, the sub-server system being unable to communicate with the central server system when the configuration definition object is obtained from the first datastore of the second remote sub-server system;

storing the configuration definition object in a third datastore of the sub-server system;

generating a first configuration object based on the configuration definition object and one or more characteristics of the sub-server system;

receiving a service request; and

executing the first configuration object in response to receiving the service request.

2. The sub-server system of claim 1, wherein the configuration definition object supports generation of multiple different configuration objects.

3. The sub-server system of claim 1, wherein the configuration definition object is obtained in advance of a scheduled maintenance.

4. The sub-server system of claim 1, wherein the one or more characteristics of the sub-server system comprise version information of the sub-server system.

5. The sub-server system of claim 1, wherein the instructions further cause the sub-server system to perform:

receiving a second configuration request from a third remote sub-server system, the second configuration request indicating the configuration definition object; and

providing the configuration definition object to the third remote sub-server system in response to receiving the second configuration request, the configuration definition object capable of facilitating a generation of a second configuration object by the third remote sub-server system based on one or more second characteristics of the third remote sub-server system, the second configuration object being different from the first configuration object.

6. The sub-server system of claim 1, wherein the service request is received subsequent to obtaining the configuration definition object.

7. A method implemented by a computing system including one or more processors and storage media storing machine-readable instructions, wherein the method is performed using the one or more processors, the method comprising:

providing, by a sub-server system over a communication network, a configuration request for a configuration definition object to a first remote sub-server system, the configuration request being forwarded by the first remote sub-server system to a second remote sub-server system in response to the first remote sub-server system determining that it cannot satisfy the configuration request for the configuration definition object;

obtaining, based on the providing the configuration request to the first remote sub-server system, a configuration definition object over the communication network from a first datastore of the second remote sub-server system in response to the second remote sub-server system determining that it can satisfy the configuration request for the configuration definition object, the configuration definition object automatically obtained by the second remote sub-server system from a central server system in response to a modification of the configuration definition object being committed to a second datastore of the central server system, the sub-server system being unable to communicate with the central server system when the configuration definition object is obtained from the first datastore of the second remote sub-server system;

storing the configuration definition object in a third datastore of the sub-server system;

generating a first configuration object based on the configuration definition object and one or more characteristics of the sub-server system;

receiving a service request; and

executing the first configuration object in response to receiving the service request.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the configuration definition object supports generation of multiple different configuration objects.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the configuration definition object is obtained in advance of a scheduled maintenance.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more characteristics of the sub-server system comprise version information of the sub-server system.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a second configuration request from a third remote sub-server system, the second configuration request indicating the configuration definition object; and

providing the configuration definition object to the third remote sub-server system in response to receiving the second configuration request, the configuration definition object capable of facilitating a generation of a second configuration object by the third remote sub-server system based on one or more second characteristics of the third remote sub-server system, the second configuration object being different from the first configuration object.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the service request is received subsequent to obtaining the configuration definition object.

13. A central server system comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the central server system to perform;

determining that a configuration definition object is committed to a local datastore; and

providing the configuration definition object over a communication network to a first remote sub-server system in response to the determination, the configuration definition object being automatically provided by the central server system in response to a modification of the configuration definition object being committed to the local datastore, the configuration definition object capable of being obtained from the first remote sub-server system by a second remote sub-server system based on a the second remote sub-server system providing a configuration request to a third remote sub-server system for the configuration definition object, the third remote sub-server system capable of forwarding the configuration request to the first remote sub-server system in response determining that the third remote sub-server system cannot satisfy the configuration request, the second remote sub-server system being unable to communicate with the central server system when the configuration definition object is provided by the central server system to the first remote sub-server system, and the configuration definition object being capable of facilitating a generation of a first configuration object by the second remote sub-server system based on one or more first characteristics of the second remote sub-server system, the second remote sub-server system capable of executing the first configuration object in response to receiving a service request.

14. The central server system of claim 13, wherein the configuration definition object supports generation of multiple different configuration objects.

15. The central server system of claim 13, wherein the configuration definition object is provided to the first remote sub-server system in advance of a scheduled maintenance of the second remote sub-server system.

16. The central server system of claim 13, wherein the one or more first characteristics of the second remote sub-server system comprise system version information.

17. The central server system of claim 13, wherein the first remote sub-server system is capable of:

receiving a second configuration request from a fourth remote sub-server system, the second configuration request indicating the configuration definition object; and

providing the configuration definition object to the fourth remote sub-server system in response to receiving the configuration request, the configuration definition object capable of facilitating a generation of a second configuration object by the fourth remote sub-server system based on one or more second characteristics of the fourth remote sub-server system, the second configuration object being different from the first configuration object.

18. The central server system of claim 13, wherein the service request is received by the second remote sub-server system subsequent to the central server system providing the configuration definition object.