Artifact report for cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure

• US 10,564,961 B1
• Filed: 11/07/2018
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Braun, Matthias
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phillip H
• Application Number:
  US16/182,903
• Time in Patent Office: 468 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

According to some embodiments, an application deployment data store may contain electronic record associated with an application package uploaded by a deployer. An artifact report platform may access the application deployment data store and, based on the information in the application deployment data store, perform the following for each resource associated with a scope of a cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure: create a root artifact of a tree; detect the root artifact'"'"'s set of artifacts; build an artifact dependency tree; for droplet roots, match sub-resources of droplet resource roots; and write the root artifact recursively to a result stream. Based on the result streams, the artifact report platform may output the artifact report to the remote operator device via the output port.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an application deployment data store that contains electronic records associated with an application package uploaded by a deployer;

an output port to provide an artifact report to a remote operator device; and

an artifact report platform, coupled to the application deployment data store and the output port, adapted to perform the following;

(i) access the application deployment data store,

(ii) based on the information in the application deployment data store, perform the following for each resource associated with a scope of a cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure;

(a) create a root artifact of a tree,

(b) detect the root artifact'"'"'s set of artifacts,

(c) build an artifact dependency tree,

(d) for droplet roots, match sub-resources of droplet resource roots, and

(e) write the root artifact recursively to a result stream, and

(iii) based on the result streams, output the artifact report to the remote operator device via the output port.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the cloud-based infrastructure is associated with a Platform-as-a-Service (“

PaaS”

) infrastructure.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the scope of the artifact report is restricted to at least one of:

(i) a single resource, (ii) an application, (iii) a droplet, (iv) a runtime, (v) a buildpack, (vi) multiple resources of the same type, and (vii) multiple resources of different types within a container resource.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the artifact report platform extends a controller Application Programming Interface (“

API”

) by several Representational State Transfer (“

REST”

) endpoints via a RESTful API Modeling Language (“

RAML”

).

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the artifact report comprises a textual stream of an array of artifacts and a single artifact object in the array is reported with a JavaScript Object Notation (“

JSON”

) structure.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein each artifact object is associated with at least one of:

(i) an artifact name, (ii) an artifact version, (iii) an artifact a type, and (iv) an artifact path.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein said detection of the root'"'"'s set of artifacts is associated with a temporary artifact with an artifact type, an artifact name, and an artifact version as available from a meta data store.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said building of the artifact dependency tree is associated with wherein there are multiple artifacts with the same artifact type, artifact name, and artifact version and the system selects the artifact with an artifact path that is closest to the path of the parent artifact of the proxy.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said matching of the sub-resources of droplet resource roots is performed such that references to used resources including an application, a buildpack, and a runtime are stored in the droplet resource during staging.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said matching is associated with a hash comparison.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein, responsive to the artefact report, the system will perform at least one of:

(i) automatically perform an outdated version search, (ii) automatically identify redundant versions of a single component, (iii) automatically identify components associated with a license restriction, and (iv) automatically identify components that need to be patched for security reasons.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein a remote operator associated with the remote operator device may search the artifact report based on at least one of:

(i) an artifact version, and (ii) a range of artifact versions.

20. The medium of claim 1, wherein:

said detection of the root'"'"'s set of artifacts is associated with a temporary artifact with an artifact type, an artifact name, and an artifact version as available from a meta data store;

said building of the artifact dependency tree is associated with wherein there are multiple artifacts with the same artifact type, artifact name, and artifact version and the system selects the artifact with an artifact path that is closest to the path of the parent artifact of the proxy;

said matching of the sub-resources of droplet resource roots is performed such that references to used resources including an application, a buildpack, and a runtime are stored in the droplet resource during staging and said matching is associated with a hash comparison.

13. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

accessing, by a computer processor of an artifact report platform, an application deployment data store that contains electronic records associated with an application package uploaded by a deployer;

based on the information in the application deployment data store, performing the following for each resource associated with a scope of a cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure;

(a) create a root artifact of a tree,

(b) detect the root artifact'"'"'s set of artifacts,

(c) build an artifact dependency tree,

(d) for droplet roots, match sub-resources of droplet resource roots, and

(e) write the root artifact recursively to a result stream, and

based on the result streams, outputting an artifact report to the remote operator device via an output port.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure is associated with a Platform-as-a-Service (“

PaaS”

) infrastructure.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the scope of the artifact report is restricted to at least one of:

(i) a single resource, (ii) an application, (iii) a droplet, (iv) a runtime, (v) a buildpack, (vi) multiple resources of the same type, and (vii) multiple resources of different types within a container resource.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the artifact report platform extends a controller Application Programming Interface (“

API”

) by several Representational State Transfer (“

REST”

) endpoints via a RESTful API Modeling Language (“

RAML”

).

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the artifact report comprises a textual stream of an array of artifacts and a single artifact object in the array is reported with a JavaScript Object Notation (“

JSON”

) structure.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein each artifact object is associated with at least one of:

(i) an artifact name, (ii) an artifact version, (iii) an artifact a type, and (iv) an artifact path.

19. A non-transitory, computer readable medium having executable instructions stored therein, the medium comprising:

instructions to access, by a computer processor of an artifact report platform, an application deployment data store that contains electronic records associated with an application package uploaded by a deployer;

based on the information in the application deployment data store, instructions to perform the following for each resource associated with a scope of a cloud-based or on-premises environment/system infrastructure;

(a) create a root artifact of a tree,

(b) detect the root artifact'"'"'s set of artifacts,

(c) build an artifact dependency tree,

(d) for droplet roots, match sub-resources of droplet resource roots, and

(e) write the root artifact recursively to a result stream, and

based on the result streams, instructions to output an artifact report to the remote operator device via an output port.