Shared Application Store for a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System

• US 20140244716A1
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Stam, Kurt, Wittmann, Eric
• Granted Patent: US 9,100,401 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

A shared application store for a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device of an application store, an indication of a selection of an application provided by the application store, the application configured for deployment on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system, issuing a command to create a copy of a repository associated with the selected application, wherein the command to create the copy further comprises tracking changes made to the copy and flowing the tracked changes to the repository from which the copy originates, and sending a copy of the repository in response to the command to create the copy, wherein the copy of the repository is deployed on the PaaS system for a user that selected the application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a processing device of an application store, an indication of a selection of an application provided by the application store, the application configured for deployment on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system;

issuing, by the processing device, a command to create a copy of a repository associated with the selected application, wherein the command to create the copy further comprises tracking changes made to the copy and flowing the tracked changes to the repository from which the copy originates; and

sending, by the processing device, a copy of the repository in response to the command to create the copy, wherein the copy of the repository is deployed on the PaaS system for a user that selected the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a local repository on a device of the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a remote repository on a node of the PaaS system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the node is a virtual machine (VM).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the repository is provided by a source code management (SCM) system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the command to create the copy is a fork command.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving changes to code of the application, the change made at the forked copy of the repository.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising providing the received changes as a different version of the application that can be selected for deployment on the PaaS system by a plurality of users.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

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

provide a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a listing of applications configured for deployment on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system;

receive an indication of a selected application via the GUI;

issue a command to fork a repository associated with the selected application;

generate a copy of the repository and supplemental information associated with the repository to support the command to fork; and

send the generated copy of the repository and the supplemental information in response to the fork command, wherein the copy of the repository is deployed on the PaaS system for a user that selected the application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a local repository on a device of the user.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a remote repository on a node of the PaaS system.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the repository is provided by a source code management (SCM) system.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the supplemental information comprises previous versions of the repository and a location of repository on the system to send updates to the repository.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the processing device is further to receive changes to code of the application, the change made at the forked copy of the repository.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processing device is further to provide the received changes as a different version of the application that can be selected for deployment on the PaaS system by a plurality of users.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a processing device of an application store, an indication of a selection of an application provided by the application store, the application configured for deployment on a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system;

issuing, by the processing device, a command to fork a repository associated with the selected application; and

sending, by the processing device, a copy of the repository in response to the fork command, wherein the copy of the repository is deployed on the PaaS system for a user that selected the application.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a local repository on a device of the user.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the copy of the repository is stored at a remote repository on a node of the PaaS system.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the repository is provided by a source code management (SCM) system.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving changes to code of the application, the change made at the forked copy of the repository; and

providing the received changes as a different version of the application that can be selected for deployment on the PaaS system by a plurality of users.