ORCHESTRATING HYBRID CLOUD SERVICES

• US 20150074279A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Murray, Bryan P., Bharadhwaj, Rajeev, Maes, Stephane Herman, Perreira, Mark
• Granted Patent: US 9,882,829 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

A technique includes providing a first interface to manage a plurality of cloud services that are provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud. Each of the cloud resources is associated with an application programming interface. The technique includes using the first interface to orchestrate the cloud services, where the orchestration includes using the first interface to orchestrate the application programming interfaces to allow at least one cloud resource management function provided by the first interface to be performed across at least two of the cloud resources.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing a first interface to manage a plurality of cloud services provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud, each of the cloud resources being associated with an application programming interface; and

using the first interface to orchestrate the cloud services, comprising using the first interface to orchestrate the application programming interfaces to allow at least one cloud resource management function provided by the first interface to be performed across at least two of the cloud resources.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein using the first interface comprises using a service shared in common by the application programming interfaces.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the first interface to automatically select one of the cloud resources based on at least one of user provided criteria and criteria other than the user provided criteria.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the first interface to check a user request for a cloud service action to be checked against a policy.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the first interface comprises:

providing at least one overarching application programming interface to orchestrate the application programming interfaces associated with the cloud resources.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein providing the at least one overarching application programming interface comprises providing an application programming interface for at least one function shared in common among the orchestrated application programming interfaces.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

providing at least one additional overarching application programming interface in response to an additional cloud service.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing the first interface comprises:

providing a service blueprint triggered by at least one of the application programming interfaces to orchestrate the application programming interfaces.

9. An article comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to store instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to:

provide a first interface to manage a plurality of cloud services provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud, each of the cloud resources being associated with an application programming interface; and

use the first interface to orchestrate the cloud services, the use of the first interface comprising orchestrating the application programming interfaces to allow at least one cloud resource management function provided by the first interface to be performed across at least two of the cloud resources.

10. The article of claim 9, the storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the computer cause the computer to provide an orchestrating application programming interface to orchestrate the application programming interfaces associated with the cloud resources.

11. The article of claim 9, the storage medium storing instructions that when executed by the computer cause the computer to provide a service blueprint triggered by at least one of the application programming interfaces to orchestrate the application programming interfaces.

12. A system comprising:

a first interface to manage a plurality of resources provided by a plurality of cloud resources that form a hybrid cloud, each of the cloud resources being associated with an application programming interface; and

at least one module comprising at least one processor to provide the interface and orchestrate the cloud services, the orchestration comprising orchestrating the application programming interfaces to allow at least one cloud resource management function provided by the interface to be performed across at least two of the cloud resources.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first interface comprises:

a plurality of cloud containers, each of the cloud containers being associated with one of the cloud resources and being associated with cloud services available for the associated cloud resource; and

at least one overarching application programming interface to orchestrate cloud services that are shared in common among the containers

14. The system of claim 13, wherein at least one of the cloud containers comprises additional application programming interfaces, each of the additional application programming interfaces being associated with one of the cloud services associated with the container.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the cloud services comprise at least one of a compute service, a storage service, a network service and an image management service.