Geographic Placement of Application Components by a Multi-Tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) System

• US 20150237114A1
• Filed: 02/14/2014
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: McGrath, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,936,001 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/502 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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

Implementations for geographic placement of application components by a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes providing, by a processing device of a multi-tenant PaaS system, a list of geographic locations to a user of a multi-tenant PaaS system, receiving, by the processing device from the user, a first request to deploy a component of an application corresponding to the user, the first request comprising a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list, and communicating, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the component of the application, the second request directed to a messaging server dedicated to the selected geographic location of the user, the dedicated messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of a node in the selected geographic location for the component of the application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing, by a processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-a-a-Service (PaaS) system, a list of geographic locations to a user of a multi-tenant PaaS system;

receiving, by the processing device from the user, a first request to deploy a component of an application corresponding to the user, the first request comprising a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list; and

communicating, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the component of the application, the second request directed to a messaging server dedicated to the selected geographic location of the user, the dedicated messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of a node in the selected geographic location for the component of the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request directly to the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request to any one of multiple messaging servers, wherein the multiple messaging servers communicate with each other to identify the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location that handles the second request.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a success response from the node confirming deployment of the component of the application; and

communicating the success response to the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the node is a virtual machine deployed in a server machine in the selected geographic location.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the component comprises a gear from the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the component comprises a cartridge for the application.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising when the user does not select one of the geographic locations from the list, indicating a default geographic location in the second request.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory; and

a broker executable from the memory by the processing device, the broker to manage a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system and to;

provide a list of geographic locations to a user of the multi-tenant PaaS system;

receive, from the user, a first request to deploy a component of an application corresponding to the user, the first request comprising a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list; and

communicate a second request to deploy the component of the application, the second request directed to a messaging server dedicated to the selected geographic location of the user, the dedicated messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of a node in the selected geographic location for the component of the application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request directly to the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request to any one of multiple messaging servers, wherein the multiple messaging servers communicate with each other to identify the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location that handles the second request.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the broker further to:

receive a success response from the node confirming deployment of the component of the application; and

communicate the success response to the user.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the node is a virtual machine deployed in a server machine in the selected geographic location.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the component comprises at least one of a gear for the application or a cartridge for the application.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the broker further to, when the user does not select one of the geographic locations from the list, indicate a default geographic location in the second request.

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:

providing, by the processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-a-a-Service (PaaS) system, a list of geographic locations to a user of a multi-tenant PaaS system;

receiving, by the processing device from the user, a first request to deploy a component of an application corresponding to the user, the first request comprising a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list; and

communicating, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the component of the application, the second request directed to a messaging server dedicated to the selected geographic location of the user, the dedicated messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of a node in the selected geographic location for the component of the application.

17. The non-transitory machine -readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request directly to the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location.

18. The non-transitory machine -readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request to any one of multiple messaging servers, wherein the multiple messaging servers communicate with each other to identify the dedicated messaging server for the selected geographic location that handles the second request.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving a success response from the node confirming deployment of the component of the application; and

communicating the success response to the user.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, further comprising when the user does not select one of the geographic locations from the list, indicating a default geographic location in the second request.