MICROSERVICE-BASED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK

• US 20160124742A1
• Filed: 10/29/2015
• Published: 05/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Equinix Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Equinix Incorporated
• Inventors: Rangasamy, Venkatachalam, Jeyapaul, Jaganathan, Kumar, Parveen, Lillie, Brian J.
• Granted Patent: US 10,230,571 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/20 Network management software packages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers

Abstract

In one example, an application development framework system comprises a microservice platform for developing and executing a plurality of microservices, wherein each microservice of the microservices comprises an independently-deployable service configured to execute one or more functions to fulfill an interface contract for an interface for the microservice; and an orchestration platform for developing and executing an orchestrator to orchestrate the microservices to execute an interconnection platform for a cloud-based services exchange configured to interconnect, using one or more virtual circuits, customers of the cloud-based services exchange.

Claims

1. An application development framework system, comprising:

one or more programmable processors configured to execute a microservice platform for developing and executing a plurality of microservices, wherein each microservice of the microservices comprises an independently-deployable service configured to execute one or more functions to fulfill an interface contract for an interface for the microservice,

wherein the one or more programmable processors are configured to execute an orchestration platform for developing and executing an orchestrator to orchestrate the microservices to execute a microservices-based application.

2. The application development framework system of claim 1, wherein the microservice platform is configured to generate, for a microservice of the plurality of microservices and based at least on a microservice definition that defines the interface contract for the microservice, a service infrastructure scaffolding for the microservice.

3. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the service infrastructure scaffolding comprises one or more of at least one controller, a router, at least one implementation file, a model for each model schema defined by the microservice definition, sample data, and validation file.

4. The application development framework system of claim 2,

wherein the service infrastructure scaffolding comprises at least one controller and a router, and

wherein the router is configured to receive a request that invokes the interface for the microservice and determine, based on the request, a controller of the at least one controller to process the request.

5. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the microservice platform comprises a code generator to generate, based on the microservice definition, executable code for the microservice.

6. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the microservice platform comprises an Application Programming Interface (API) documentation engine to:

generate, based on the interface contract, user-readable data describing the interface contract; and

output the user-readable data display by a user interface device.

7. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the microservice platform comprises a log aggregator to aggregate log information for the microservice.

8. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the microservice platform comprises a process monitor.

9. The application development framework system of claim 2, wherein the microservice platform comprises an Application Programming Interface (API) framework.

10. The application development framework system of claim 9, wherein the API framework provides an event-driven architecture and a non-blocking I/O API.

11. The application development framework of claim 1, wherein the microservice platform is configured to generate, for a microservice of the plurality of microservices and based at least on a microservice definition that defines the interface contract for the microservice, an external database connector with which the microservice performs persistence operations.

12. The application development framework system of claim 1, wherein the orchestration platform is configured to generate, based on at least on respective microservice definitions that define respective interface contracts for the microservices, a service infrastructure scaffolding for the orchestrator.

13. The application development framework system of claim 12, wherein the service infrastructure scaffolding comprises one or more of at least one controller, a router, and at least one workflow for the microservices.

14. The application development framework system of claim 12, wherein the orchestration platform comprises a service discovery engine configured to discover available microservices to route requests to the microservices.

15. The application development framework system of claim 12, wherein the orchestration platform comprises an Application Programming Interface (API) documentation engine to:

generate, based on an interface contract that defines an interface for the orchestrator, user-readable data describing the interface contract; and

output the user-readable data for display by a user interface device.

16. The application development framework system of claim 12, wherein the orchestration platform comprises a code generator to generate, based on the microservice definition, executable code for the orchestrator.

17. The application development framework system of claim 12,

wherein the orchestrator invokes multiple microservices and receives respective responses from the multiple microservices, and

wherein the orchestration platform comprises a response aggregator to aggregate the responses and present a uniform response to a request received by the orchestrator.

18. An application development framework system, comprising:

one or more programmable processors configured to execute a microservice platform for developing and executing a plurality of microservices, wherein each microservice of the microservices comprises an independently-deployable service configured to execute one or more functions to fulfill an interface contract for an interface for the microservice,

wherein the one or more programmable processors are configured to execute an orchestration platform for developing and executing an orchestrator to orchestrate the microservices to execute an interconnection platform for a cloud-based services exchange configured to interconnect, using one or more virtual circuits, customers of the cloud-based services exchange.

19. The application development framework system of claim 18, wherein the microservices comprise microservices for creating and managing virtual circuits to interconnect enterprise customers of the cloud-based services exchange and cloud service provider customers of the cloud-based services exchange.

20. The application development framework system of claim 19, wherein the microservices comprise one or more of a virtual circuit microservice, a port microservice, a link aggregation group microservice, a metro microservice, a cloud service provider detail microservice, a quality of service microservice, a customer service and ticketing microservice, a search microservice, an assets and network inventory microservice, a language microservice, and a service settings microservice.

21. The application development framework system of claim 18, wherein the orchestration engine orchestrates workflows to fulfill services offered by the interconnection platform.

22. The application development framework system of claim 21, wherein the services comprise one or more of a manage port service, a manage metro service, a cloud service provider detail service, an order management service, a view virtual circuit service, a delete virtual circuit service, a search service, a network service provider service, a cloud service provider configuration service, a support and tickets service, a monitoring and statistics service, and an analytics and recommendation service.

23. The application development framework system of claim 21, wherein the services correspond to one or more API gateway APIs.

24. A method comprising:

configuring an application development framework for execution by an execution environment;

creating an application programming interface (API) server;

editing at least one definition file, each of the at least one definition files defining an interface for an orchestrator;

processing, using the application development framework, the at least one definition file to generate service infrastructure for a microservices-based application, including one or more microservices; and

executing, by the API server, the microservices-based application.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

implementing a set of API endpoints for each of the one more microservices; and

defining a workflow, wherein the orchestrator executes the workflow to orchestrate the one or more microservices to fulfill a request received by the API server by invoking the respective sets of API endpoints for each of the one more microservices.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

defining a workflow, wherein the orchestrator executes the workflow to orchestrate the one or more microservices to fulfill a request received by the API server.

27. The method of claim 24, wherein the microservices-based application comprises an interconnection platform for a cloud-based services exchange.