DISCOVERY AND MODELING OF DEPLOYMENT ACTIONS FOR MULTIPLE DEPLOYMENT ENGINE PROVIDERS

• US 20140007039A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Berg, Daniel C., Elder, Michael D., Gaponenko, Yulia, Poddar, Indrajit, Pravosud, Yuri
• Granted Patent: US 9,940,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• 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

Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and as second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping to generate a multi-deployment engine operational workflow.

Claims

1. A method, comprising;

modeling a plurality of operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines;

selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines of the one or more corresponding deployment engines;

ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow;

grouping the ordered operation units according to the corresponding selected deployment engines into a plurality of deployment engine groupings;

mapping a plurality of output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping of the plurality of deployment engine groupings to a plurality of input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, wherein the second grouping immediately follows the first grouping with respect to the ordering;

inserting, between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and a second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping, to generate a multi-deployment engine operational workflow; and

storing for execution the multi-deployment engine operational workflow.

2. The method of claim 1, the inserting, between each adjacent deployment engine grouping comprising mapping a plurality of output parameters corresponding to a first deployment action that concludes a first operation unit to a plurality of input parameters of a second deployment action that initiates a second operation unit.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising executing the stored deployment operational workflow to implement a computing system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising designating a particular deployment engine of the plurality of deployment engines as a master deployment engine, wherein the master deployment engine executes the transitional operational unit.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising inserting a corresponding transitional operational unit between each pair of adjacent deployment engine groupings.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a graphical user inter e (GUI) for the selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines of the one or more corresponding deployment engines.