FAST PROVISIONING OF PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20150058467A1
• Filed: 10/30/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Digital River Incorporated (Danube Private Holdings II, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Digital River Incorporated (Danube Private Holdings II, LLC)
• Inventors: DOUGLAS, Ryan Patrick, OLSEN BORCHERT, Michael Edwin, JOHNSON, Dana Elli, FRIESEN, Kyle John
• Application Number:
  US14/528,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058467A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/35 containing special prefixes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5051 Service on demand, e.g. definition and deployment of services in real time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1004 Server selection for load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A system and method for the fast, on-demand provisioning of platform-as-a-service is described. A customer submits a request for a platform, such as an e-commerce platform, by providing specifications for the infrastructure and identifying the type of platform required. The system automatically creates and tunes an infrastructure template. Applications and configuration details as well as other artifacts are installed on the template to create a platform model. The platform model is replicated to location and capacity specifications. Data Center and network details are registered so the platform may be identified on the network. The requestor may use the capacity for any period of time and then return it to the provider.

Claims

1. An automated platform-as-a-service provisioning system, comprising:

a system deployment module operatively configured to receive specifications for and direct the creation of a computing platform;

an operations orchestration module operatively configured to guide the workflow of component modules and sub-systems to carry out provisioning of a platform;

an automation center module operatively configured to create and tune virtual machine components of a platform based on received specifications;

an automation platform operatively configured to install software and configuration details on the created machine based on instructions stored in memory;

a repository module containing all artifacts related to a platform and accessible by the automation platform.

2. The automated platform-as-a-service provisioning system of claim 1 where the system further comprises a configurations and applications management module;

and

a build tool operatively configured to transform configuration details and applications into files that are accessible to and readable by the automation platform.

3. A method for fast provisioning of a platform-as-a-service, comprising:

receiving a specification for a platform;

creating an infrastructure template of the platform based on the requested platform specification;

creating a platform model by installing applications and configuration details;

replicating the platform model to meet capacity and location requirements;

registering the location with the data center and network details required to identify the platform.