SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CLONE SERVICE FOR USE WITH A CLOUD PLATFORM ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150120889A1
• Filed: 10/15/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: SAPALIGA, BHAVANISHANKARA, MORDANI, RAJIV, ISLAM, NAZRUL, THYAGARAJAN, SIVAKUMAR, SUBRAMANIAN, PRASAD, EVANI, MADHAVI
• Granted Patent: US 10,452,374 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/07 Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/14 Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation G06F11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1464 for networked environments
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0846 based on copy from other elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a clone a service in a cloud platform environment. The system can clone a source service within a service domain or across service domains, by creating a new service from a same service definition package used for creating the source service, extracting post-provision changes from the source service, e.g., user applications and post-provision configurations, and applying the changes to the new service.

Claims

1. A system for providing a clone service in a cloud computing platform environment, comprising:

one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon;

a cloud platform component provided as an installable software suite within the cloud environment, that supports provisioning of enterprise applications; and

one or more components that support creating a clone service from a source service, wherein a backup copy of the source service is created, and applied to a new service created using a service definition package (SDP) that has been used for creating the source service.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the backup copy of the source service include data and configurations added to the source service after the source service is provisioned.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the new service is in a same service domain, or in a different service domain with the source service.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the new service runs on a different virtualization and uses different provider types for various provider dependencies from the source service.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the source service and the new service is associated with an SME that implements a service provider interface (SPI) for determining configuration and application changes made to a service after the service is provisioned.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein applying the backup copy of the source service includes computing differences between move plans associated with the source service and the new service.

7. A method for providing a clone service in a cloud computing platform environment, comprising:

providing, at one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon, a cloud platform component as an installable software suite that supports provisioning of enterprise applications; and

providing one or more components that support creating a clone service from a source service, wherein a backup copy of the source service is created, and applied to a new service created using a service definition package (SDP) that has been used for creating the source service.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the backup copy of the source service include data and configurations added to the source service after the source service is provisioned.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the new service is in a same service domain, or in a different service domain with the source service.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the new service runs on a different virtualization and uses different provider types for various provider dependencies from the source service.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the source service and the new service is associated with an SME that implements a service provider interface (SPI) for determining configuration and application changes made to a service after the service is provisioned.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein applying the backup copy of the source service includes computing differences between move plans associated with the source service and the new service.

13. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

providing, at one or more computers including a cloud environment executing thereon, a cloud platform component as an installable software suite that supports provisioning of enterprise applications; and

providing one or more components that support creating a clone service from a source service, wherein a backup copy of the source service is created, and applied to a new service created using a service definition package (SDP) that has been used for creating the source service.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the backup copy of the source service include data and configurations added to the source service after the source service is provisioned.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the new service is in a same service domain, or in a different service domain with the source service.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the new service runs on a different virtualization and uses different provider types for various provider dependencies from the source service.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein each of the source service and the new service is associated with an SME that implements a service provider interface (SPI) for determining configuration and application changes made to a service after the service is provisioned.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein applying the backup copy of the source service includes computing differences between move plans associated with the source service and the new service.