Coordination of inter-operable infrastructure as a service (IAAS) and platform as a service (PAAS)

• US 10,454,999 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Eder, Jeremy
• Primary Examiner(s): Bates, Kevin T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Ronak
• Application Number:
  US13/827,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20140280437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,413 Days
• Field of Search: 709201
• 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 and a method are disclosed for coordinating an inter-operable Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer. In one example, the method includes receiving, by a processing device associated with a PaaS layer, a message indicating a resource status associated with a plurality of resources of an IaaS layer, determining, by the processing device, a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer to instantiate a platform service of the PaaS layer, the determining is based on the message indicating the resource status associated with the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and transmitting, by the processing device, a message directing the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service on the determined resource in the IaaS layer.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing, a bi-directional communication channel between a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer using a PaaS interface unit that serves as a demarcation point between the PaaS layer and the bi-directional communication channel;

receiving, by a processing device associated with the PaaS layer, a first message from an IaaS layer manager through the bi-directional communication channel that indicates a resource status associated with each of a plurality of resources of the IaaS layer, the resource status comprising an indication of utilization of each of the plurality of the resources of the IaaS layer;

identifying, by a platform configuration module of a PaaS layer manager, a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer that is an identified resource of the IaaS layer, wherein the identifying is in view of whether the resource status in the first message indicates that the identified resource of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer is underutilized;

determining, by the platform configuration module, to instantiate a platform service of the PaaS layer on the identified resource of the IaaS layer; and

transmitting, by the PaaS layer manager, a second message through the bi-directional communication channel directing the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service on the identified resource in the IaaS layer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource status further comprises at least one of an availability of random access memory, an availability of processing time, an availability of disk space, or an availability of network bandwidth.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the processing device, a third message indicating a preferred resource of the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service, and

transmitting, by the processing device, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on the preferred resource in the IaaS layer in view of the third message indicating the preferred resource of the IaaS layer.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the processing device, a third message indicating a non-preferred resource of the IaaS layer to avoid instantiating the platform service; and

transmitting, by the processing device, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on a resource other than the non-preferred resource in the IaaS layer in view of the third message indicating the non-preferred resource of the IaaS layer.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the processing device, whether to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer in view of the resource status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

transmitting, by the processing device, a third message directing the IaaS layer to allocate additional resources in the IaaS layer in response to a determination to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the processing device, whether to remove resources from the IaaS layer in view of the resource status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

transmitting, by the processing device, a third message directing the IaaS layer to remove resources from the IaaS layer in response to a determination to remove resources from the IaaS layer.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the processing device, a third message indicating a location status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer;

receiving, by the processing device, a fourth message indicating a location status associated with a user;

determining, by the processing device, a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service, the determining in view of the third message indicating the location status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer and the fourth message indicating the location status associated with the user; and

transmitting, by the processing device associated with the PaaS layer, a fifth message directing the platform service to instantiate on the determined resource in the IaaS layer.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device to;

establish a bi-directional communication channel between a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer using a IaaS interface unit that serves as a demarcation point between the IaaS layer and the bi-directional communication channel;

determine, by an IaaS layer manager of the IaaS layer, resource status associated with each of a plurality of resources of the IaaS layer and a preferred resource of the plurality of the resources of the IaaS layer on which to instantiate a platform service of the PaaS layer in view of the determined resource status, wherein the resource status comprising an indication of utilization of each of the plurality of the resources of the IaaS layer;

transmit, by the IaaS layer manager to a PaaS layer manager, a first message comprising the resource status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer through the bi-directional communication channel and comprising an indication of the determined preferred resource;

receive, from the PaaS layer manager, a second message indicating to instantiate the platform service of the PaaS layer on the preferred resource in view of the the first message, wherein the second message received via the bi-directional communication channel between the PaaS layer and the IaaS layer; and

instantiate the platform service of the PaaS layer on the indicated preferred resource in the IaaS layer.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the resource status further comprises at least one of an availability of random access memory, an availability of processing time, an availability of disk space, or an availability of network bandwidth.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

transmit, by the processing device, a third message indicating a non-preferred resource of the IaaS layer to avoid instantiating the platform service, and

receive, from the PaaS layer, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on a resource other than the non-preferred resource in the IaaS layer.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

receive, from the PaaS layer, a third message directing the IaaS layer to allocate additional resources in the IaaS layer.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

receive, from the PaaS layer, a third message directing the IaaS layer to remove resources from the IaaS layer.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

transmit, by the processing device, a third message indicating a location status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

receive, from the PaaS layer, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on a resource in the IaaS layer in view of a location status associated with a user.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

establish a bi-directional communication channel between a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer using a PaaS interface unit that serves as a demarcation point between the PaaS layer and the bi-directional communication channel;

receive a first message from an IaaS layer manager through the bi-directional communication channel indicating a resource status associated with each of a plurality of resources of the IaaS layer, the resource status comprising an indication of utilization of each of the plurality of the resources of the IaaS layer;

identify, by a platform configuration module of a PaaS layer manager, a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer that is an identified resource of the IaaS layer, the identifying in view of whether the resource status in the first message indicates that the identified resource of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer is underutilized;

determine, by the platform configuration module, to instantiate a platform service of the PaaS layer on the identified resource of the IaaS layer; and

transmit, by the PaaS layer manager, a second message directing the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service on the identified resource in the IaaS layer, wherein the second message was sent through a bi-directional communication channel between the PaaS layer and the IaaS layer.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the resource status further comprises at least one of an availability of random access memory, an availability of processing time, an availability of disk space, or an availability of network bandwidth.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the processing device further to:

receive, by the processing device, a third message indicating a preferred resource of the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service, and

transmit, by the processing device, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on the preferred resource in the IaaS layer in view of the third message indicating the preferred resource of the IaaS layer.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the processing device further to:

receive, by the processing device, a third message indicating a non-preferred resource of the IaaS layer to avoid instantiating the platform service; and

transmit, by the processing device, a fourth message directing the platform service to instantiate on a resource other than the non-preferred resource in the IaaS layer in view of the third message indicating the non-preferred resource of the IaaS layer.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the processing device further to:

determine, by the processing device, whether to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer in view of the resource status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

transmit, by the processing device, a third message directing the IaaS layer to allocate additional resources in the IaaS layer in response to a determination to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, the processing device further to:

determine, by the processing device, whether to remove resources from the IaaS layer in view of the resource status associated with each of the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

transmit, by the processing device, a third message directing the IaaS layer to remove resources from the IaaS layer in response to a determination to remove resources from the IaaS layer.