METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATION OF INTER-OPERABLE INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE (IAAS) AND PLATFORM AS A SERVICE (PAAS)

• US 20140280437A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 10,454,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/201
• 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:

receiving, by a processing device associated with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer, a message indicating a resource status associated with a plurality of resources of an Infrastructure as a Service (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.

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, and an availability of network bandwidth.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

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

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

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

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

transmitting, by the processing device, a message directing the platform service to instantiate on a resource other than the non-preferred resource in the IaaS layer based on the 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 based on based on 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 allocate additional resources in the IaasS layer when it is determined 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 based on based on 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 remove resources from the IaaS layer when it is determined to remove resources from the IaaS layer.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

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

receiving, by the processing device, a 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 based on the message indicating the location status associated with the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer and the message indicating the location status associated with the user; and

transmitting, by the processing device associated with the PaaS layer, a 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 associated with an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer, the processing device communicably coupled to the memory and to;

transmit, to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer, a resource status associated with a plurality of resources of the IaaS layer;

receive, from the PaaS layer, a message indicating a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer to instantiate a platform service based on the resource status associated with the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and

instantiate the platform service on the indicated 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, and an availability of network bandwidth.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

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

receive, from the PaaS layer, a message directing the platform service to instantiate on the preferred resource in the IaaS layer.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

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

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

12. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

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

13. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

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

14. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

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

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

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

receiving, by a processing device associated with a Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer, a message indicating a resource status associated with a plurality of resources of an Infrastructure as a Service (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.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, 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, and an availability of network bandwidth.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

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

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

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

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

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

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

determining, by the processing device, whether to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer based on based on 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 allocate additional resources in the IaasS layer when it is determined to allocate additional resources to the IaaS layer.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, further comprising:

determining, by the processing device, whether to remove resources from the IaaS layer based on based on 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 remove resources from the IaaS layer when it is determined to remove resources from the IaaS layer.