SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CLOUD DEPLOYMENT CONFIGURATION OF AN APPLICATION

• US 20140040656A1
• Filed: 08/26/2010
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Ho, Ricky, Donahue, Jim
• Granted Patent: US 8,739,157 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3093 Configuration details thereof, e.g. installation, enabling, spatial arrangement of the probes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A system is provided to manage cloud deployment configuration of a computing application. The system comprises a request detector, a retrieving module, a manager loader, a configuration change request detector, and a configuration module. The request detector may be configured to detect a request to install a manager agent on an instance of a virtual machine executing a computing application within a virtualization service. The retrieving module may be configured to obtain a manager agent object for loading the manager agent, and install the manager agent on the instance. The manager loader may be configured to invoke the manager agent to collect metrics for the computing application. The configuration change request detector may be configured to receive an instruction to alter cloud deployment configuration of the computing application. The configuration module may be configured to automatically alter the cloud deployment configuration of the computing application in response to the instruction.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

detecting a request to install a manager agent on an instance of a virtual machine to collect metrics, the instance executing a computing application within a virtualization service;

in response to the request, accessing a manager agent object for loading the manager agent and installing the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine to collect the metrics for the computing application;

invoking the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application to collect the metrics for the computing application;

receiving an instruction to alter a current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application, the instruction generated based on trend data derived from the metrics collected over a trend time period for the computing application by the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application; and

automatically altering, using a processor of a machine, the current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application in response to the instruction generated based on the trend data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the metrics for the computing application are application-level metrics.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the metrics for the instance of the computing application are system-level metrics.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising providing the collected metrics to a cloud manager executing within a hosted service system, the cloud manager being in communication with a rules engine.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the rules engine is to provide one or more rules for determining, based on the collected metrics, the instruction to automatically alter the current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically determining an alternative cloud deployment configuration using the trend data, the current cloud deployment configuration being altered to the alternative cloud deployment configuration.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the cloud manager comprises a user interface to permit a user to edit, add, and delete rules provided to the rules engine.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the computing application comprises a component from a plurality of components; and

the instruction is to alter configuration of the component.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the instruction is to recover from a failure of the component.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction is to start another instance of a virtual machine executing at least one component of the computing application.

21. The method of claim 4, wherein the cloud manager is to apply forecasting techniques to the collected metrics to generate predictions with respect to future workload conditions, the altering of the cloud deployment configuration of the computing application comprising preemptively adjusting the cloud deployment configuration for the computing application based on the generated predictions.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the trend time period is an extended time period long enough to derive meaningful trend data on application performance and usage.

11. A system comprising:

a processor of a machine;

a request detector to detect a request to install a manager agent on an instance of a virtual machine to collect metrics, the instance executing a computing application within a virtualization service;

a retrieving module to;

access a manager agent object for loading the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application, and

install the manager agent on the instance of virtual machine to collect the metrics for the computing application;

a manager loader to invoke the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application to collect the metrics for the computing application;

a configuration change request detector to receive an instruction to alter a current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application, the instruction generated based on trend data derived from the metrics collected over a trend time period for the computing application by the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application; and

a configuration module to automatically alter, using the processor, the current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application in response to the instruction generated based on the trend data.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the metrics for the computing application are application-level metrics.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the metrics for the instance of the computing application are system-level metrics.

14. The system of claim 11, comprising a communications module to provide the collected metrics to a cloud manager executing within a hosted service system, the cloud manager being in communication with a rules engine.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the rules engine is to provide one or more rules for determining, based on the collected metrics, the instruction to automatically alter the current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising automatically determining an alternative cloud deployment configuration using the trend data, the current cloud deployment configuration being altered to the alternative cloud deployment configuration.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the cloud manager comprises a user interface to permit a user to edit, add, and delete rules provided to the rules engine.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the computing application comprises a component from a plurality of components; and

the instruction is to alter configuration of the component.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the instruction is to recover from a failure of the component.

20. A tangible machine-readable storage medium having instruction data to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

detecting a request to install a manager agent on an instance of a virtual machine to collect metrics, the instance executing a computing application within a virtualization service;

accessing a manager agent object for loading the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application;

installing the manager agent on the instance of a virtual machine to collect the metrics for the computing application;

invoking the manager agent on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application to collect the metrics for the computing application over a trend time period;

determining trend data based on the metrics collected by the manager agent over the extended period of time on the instance of the virtual machine that is executing the computing application; and

automatically altering a current cloud deployment configuration of the computing application based on the trend data.