System and method for multitenant service management engine in a cloud platform environment

• US 10,419,301 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Mordani, Rajiv, Islam, Nazrul, Thyagarajan, Sivakumar, Sapaliga, Bhavanishankara
• Primary Examiner(s): Serrao, Ranodhi
• Application Number:
  US14/478,977
• Publication Number:
  US 20150120892A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,838 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment. A platform component enables a service runtime to be shared by multiple tenants, by providing each tenant with a dedicated share or slice of a runtime instance. Each share/slice can be isolated from other shares/slices with respect to factors such as, for example, configuration, or quality of service. In accordance with an embodiment, during provisioning of a particular service runtime, a runtime definition associated with the service runtime can be utilized, for example by a service management engine, to configure the platform component to install one or more services within the service runtime. A particular service and its service runtimes can also be provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to a service runtime definition and placement configuration.

Claims

1. A system for providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment, using service management engines, comprising:

one or more computers including a cloud computing environment executing thereon;

a platform component that enables provisioning of services within the cloud computing environment, including

providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that includes information that enables the service type to be provided as a service within the cloud computing environment, and

providing, for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that provisions service instances of the service type, including that the service management engine associates a service runtime definition with the service type to provision a service runtime that provides the service instances; and

a service lifecycle manager, that provides a runtime manager interface that includes callable methods that provide configuration of service runtime definitions, wherein during provisioning of a particular service for access by one or multiple tenants, the service lifecycle manager is invoked to

determine the service runtime definition associated with the particular service, as provided by a particular service management engine associated with the particular service, and

provision a particular service runtime that is accessible by the one or multiple tenants to one or more service instances provided by the particular service runtime.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein, based on a configuration associated with the service management engine (SME), the SME determines to create the particular service that has one runtime, many runtimes, or zero runtimes.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein during service creation, an orchestration engine validates supplied configuration parameters, and invokes a configure type method of the service management engine (SME), to perform necessary initializations.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the service runtime is automatically created by the particular service management engine upon receipt of a first service instance creation request.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the service runtime is provisioned to be accessible by multiple tenants, and wherein each particular share of the service runtime is associated with a particular tenant of the multiple tenants.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the particular service and its service runtime are provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to the service runtime definition and a placement configuration.

7. A method of providing multitenancy support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment, using service management engines, comprising:

providing, at one or more computers, a cloud computing environment executing thereon; and

provisioning services within the cloud computing environment, including

providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that includes information that enables the service type to be provided as a service within the cloud computing environment, and

providing, for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that provisions service instances of the service type, including that the service management engine associates a service runtime definition with the service type to provision a service runtime that provides the service instances;

wherein during provisioning of a particular service for access by one or multiple tenants, a service lifecycle manager that provides a runtime manager interface that includes callable methods that provide configuration of service runtime definitions is invoked to

determine the service runtime definition associated with the particular service, as provided by a particular service management engine associated with the particular service, and

provision a particular service runtime that is accessible by the one or multiple tenants to one or more service instances provided by the particular service runtime.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, based on a configuration associated with the service management engine (SME), the SME determines to create the particular service that has one runtime, many runtimes, or zero runtimes.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein during service creation, an orchestration engine validates supplied configuration parameters, and invokes a configure type method of the service management engine (SME), to perform necessary initializations.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the service runtime is automatically created by the particular service management engine upon receipt of a first service instance creation request.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the service runtime is provisioned to be accessible by multiple tenants, and wherein each particular share of the service runtime is associated with a particular tenant of the multiple tenants.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the particular service and its service runtime are provisioned, within one or more runtime pools, according to the service runtime definition and a placement configuration.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that includes information that enables the service type to be provided as a service within the cloud computing environment, and

providing, for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that provisions service instances of the service type, including that the service management engine associates a service runtime definition with the service type to provision a service runtime that provides the service instances;

wherein during provisioning of a particular service for access by one or multiple tenants, a service lifecycle manager that provides a runtime manager interface that includes callable methods that provide configuration of service runtime definitions is invoked to

determine the service runtime definition associated with the particular service, as provided by a particular service management engine associated with the particular service, and

provision a particular service runtime that is accessible by the one or multiple tenants to one or more service instances provided by the particular service runtime.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein, based on a configuration associated with the service management engine (SME), the SME determines to create the particular service that has one runtime, many runtimes, or zero runtimes.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein during service creation, an orchestration engine validates supplied configuration parameters, and invokes a configure type method of the service management engine (SME), to perform necessary initializations.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the service runtime is automatically created by the particular service management engine upon receipt of a first service instance creation request.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the service runtime is provisioned to be accessible by multiple tenants, and wherein each particular share of the service runtime is associated with a particular tenant of the multiple tenants.