Container based application reification

• US 10,379,843 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2015
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rubrik, Inc.
• Inventors: Raghavan, Ajaykrishna, Thakur, Tarun, Sarkar, Prasenjit
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duy Khuong T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hebert, Theodore E
• Application Number:
  US14/975,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20160179509A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,334 Days
• Field of Search: 717121
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for container based application reification. In a particular embodiment, an application reification system is provided including one or more computer readable storage media and a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media. The application reification system further includes program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to preserve a version of application data at a first time and a configuration of an application at the first time. At a second time subsequent to the first time, the program instructions direct the processing system to create a template for a container containing the application in the configuration and a pointer to the version of the application data in a secondary storage repository.

Claims

1. An application reification system comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media;

a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media; and

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to;

preserve a version of application data at a first time, the version of application data including a copy of a state of an application at the first time, the application executing on a host system separate from the application reification system;

preserve an application configuration of the application at the first time, the application configuration including information associated with the execution of the application at the first time;

at a second time subsequent to the first time, receive, from the host system, a request to reify the application at the state corresponding to the first time in a container on the host system; and

in response to the request;

create a container template, the container template including information associated with instantiating the container executing the application at the state corresponding to the first time, the container template including the application configuration of the application at the first time and a pointer to the version of the application data stored in a secondary storage repository, and

instantiate, based on the created container template, the container executing the application at the state corresponding to the first time;

copy the instantiated container on the application reification system; and

provide the container template to the host system for reifying the application at the state corresponding to the first time in the container, the host system providing an amount of computing resources to reify the application at the state corresponding to the first time in the container, the amount of computing resources equal to or scaled from a production environment for the application at the first time.

2. The application reification system of claim 1, wherein the application data comprises a database of data items stored in a primary storage repository and wherein the program instructions to direct the processing system to preserve the version of the application data at a first time are configured to direct the processing system to:

identify one or more of the data items that have changed since a previous version was created; and

create the version of the application data from the one or more of the data items.

3. The application reification system of claim 1, wherein the program instructions direct the processing system to further:

store the version of application data and the application configuration in the secondary storage repository.

4. The reification reification system of claim 1, wherein the application configuration includes parameters of the application to replicate processing results of the application corresponding to the first time.

5. The reification reification system of claim 1, wherein the program instructions further direct the processing system to:

perform data integrity checks on the version of the application data.

6. A method of application reification, the method comprising:

preserving, by an application reification system, a version of application data at a first time, the version of application data including a copy of a state of an application at the first time, the application executing on a host system separate from the application reification system;

preserving an application configuration of the application at the first time, the application configuration including information associated with the execution of the application at the first time;

at a second time subsequent to the first time, receiving, from the host system, a request to reify the application at the state corresponding to the first time in a container on the host system; and

in response to the request;

creating, by the application reification system, a container template, the container template including information associated with instantiating the container executing the application at the state corresponding to the first time, the container template including the application configuration of the application at the first time and a pointer to the version of the application data stored in a secondary storage repository, and

instantiating, based on the created container template, the container executing the application at the state corresponding to the first time;

copying the instantiated container on the application reification system; and

providing the container template to the host system for reifying the application at the state corresponding to the first time in the container, the host system providing an amount of computing resources to reify the application at the state corresponding to the first time in the container, the amount of computing resources equal to or scaled from a production environment for the application at the first time.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the application data comprises a database of data items stored in a primary storage repository and wherein preserving the version of the application data at a first time comprises:

identifying one or more of the data items that have changed since a previous version was created; and

creating the version of the application data from the one or more of the data items.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein preserving the configuration of the application at the first time comprises:

storing the version of application data and the application configuration in the secondary storage repository.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the application configuration includes parameters of the application to replicate processing results of the application corresponding to the first time.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprises:

performing data integrity checks on the version of the application data.

11. A host system comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media;

a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media; and

program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when read and executed by the processing system, direct the processing system to;

executing an application in a production environment at a first time;

at a second time later than the first time, receive a user instruction to reify the application at a state corresponding to the first time in a container on the host system;

request, from an application reification system separate from the host system, a container template, the container template including information associated with instantiating the container executing the application at the state corresponding to the first time, the container template including an application configuration of the application and a pointer to a version of application data stored on a secondary repository, the application configuration including information associated with the execution of the application at the first time and the version of application data including a copy of the state of the application at the first time, the container instantiated based on the container template; and

receive the container template from the application reification system; and

instantiate the container executing the application, wherein the application operates on the version of the application data stored on the secondary repository, and wherein the host system provides an amount of computing resources to reify the application at the state corresponding to the first time in the container, the amount of computing resources equal to or scaled from a production environment for the application at the first time.