Policy-Based Application Deployment and Continuous Best-Fit Placement Across Heterogeneous Computing Infrastructures

• US 20150169306A1
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Hicks, Matthew, Labocki, James
• Granted Patent: US 9,940,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/40 Transformation of program code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• 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: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Implementations for policy-based application deployment and continuous best-fit placement across heterogeneous computing infrastructures are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes determining that an application of a source application platform system triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds, determining, based on the metrics-based threshold that was triggered, a target application platform system to deploy the application, translating metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system, and causing the application to be deployed at the target application platform system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a processing device, that an application of a source application platform system triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds;

determining, by the processing device based on the metrics-based threshold that was triggered, a target application platform system to deploy the application;

translating, by the processing device, metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system; and

causing, by the processing device, the application to be deployed at the target application platform system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising monitoring the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the translating the metadata utilizes a rules engine to convert fields of the metadata from the format of the source application platform system to the format of the target application system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing the application to be deployed further comprising communicating with one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the target application platform to provide the metadata in the format of the target application platform system.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory; and

a management system executable from the memory by the processing device, the management system to;

determine that an application of a source application platform system triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds;

determine, based on the metrics-based threshold that was triggered, a target application platform system to deploy the application;

translate metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system; and

cause the application to be deployed at the target application platform system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the management system further to monitor the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric, and wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the translating the metadata utilizes a rules engine to convert fields of the metadata from the format of the source application platform system to the format of the target application system.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the causing the application to be deployed further comprising communicating with one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the target application platform to provide the metadata in the format of the target application platform system.

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

determining, by the processing device, that an application of a source application platform system triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds;

determining, by the processing device based on the metrics-based threshold that was triggered, a target application platform system to deploy the application;

translating, by the processing device, metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system; and

causing, by the processing device, the application to be deployed at the target application platform system.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising monitoring the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric, and wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.