INSTANTIATING A TOPOLOGY-BASED SERVICE USING A BLUEPRINT AS INPUT

• US 20160239595A1
• Filed: 10/30/2013
• Published: 08/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Newman, Matthew Simon, Maes, Stephane Herman
• Application Number:
  US15/028,750
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239595A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/18 Network design, e.g. design based on topological or interconnect aspects of utility systems, piping, heating ventilation air conditioning [HVAC] or cabling circuit design at the physical level G06F30/39; network planning tools for wireless communication networks H04W16/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0894 Policy-based network configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/122 of virtualised topologies, e.g. software-defined networks [SDN] or network function virtualisation [NFV]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/145 involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications

Abstract

A method of instantiating a topology-based service using a blueprint, includes, with a topology designer, modeling the blueprint as a topology, with a resource offering manager, associating a number of policies and a number of lifecycle management actions (LCMAs) with a number of nodes within the topology, and with a lifecycle management (LCM) engine, instantiating the topology based on the policies and LCMAs.

Claims

1. A method of instantiating a topology-based service using a blueprint as input, comprising:

with a topology designer, modeling the blueprint as a topology;

with a resource offering manager, associating a number of policies and a number of lifecycle management actions (LCMAs) with a number of nodes within the topology; and

with a lifecycle management (LCM) engine, instantiating the topology based on the policies and LCMAs.

2. The method of claim 1, in which modeling a blueprint as a topology comprises:

deriving a number of containment relationships from the blueprint, the containment relationships defining a number of hierarchical relationships between a number of objects within the blueprint.

3. The method of claim 1, in which modeling a blueprint as a topology comprises:

deriving a number of temporal dependency relationships from the blueprint, the temporal dependency relationships defining a number of provisioning relationships between a number of objects within the blueprint.

4. The method of claim 1, in which modeling a blueprint as a topology comprises:

deriving a number of additional relationships from the blueprint, the additional relationships defining a number of relationships derived from a number of containment relationships, temporal dependency relationships, a number of objects, or combinations thereof; and

adding a number of the additional relationships to the blueprint.

5. The method of claim 1, in which instantiating the topology based on the policies and LCMAs comprises:

with a policy provisioning engine, obtaining a number of provisioning policies for a blueprint-derived topology and modifying the blueprint-derived topology based on the provisioning policies; and

with an interpreter, interpreting the provisioning policies to create an execution plan.

6. A system for instantiating a topology-based service using a blueprint, comprising:

a topology designer to model the blueprint as a topology;

a resource offering manager to associate a number of policies and a number of lifecycle management actions (LCMAs) with a number of nodes within the topology; and

a lifecycle management (LCM) engine to instantiate the topology based on the policies and LCMAs,

in which the blueprint comprises a number of containment relationships, the containment relationships defining a number of hierarchical relationships between objects within the blueprint.

7. The system of claim 6, in which the topology designer derives the containment relationships from the blueprint, the containment relationships defining a number of hierarchical relationships between objects within the blueprint.

8. The system of claim 6, in which the topology designer derives a number of temporal dependency relationships from the blueprint, the temporal dependency relationships defining a number of provisioning relationships between a number of objects within the blueprint.

9. The system of claim 6, in which in which the topology designer derives a number of additional relationships from the blueprint, the additional relationships defining a number of relationships derived from a number of containment relationships, temporal dependency relationships, a number of objects, or combinations thereof.

10. The system of claim 6, in which the LCM engine derives a number of scripts for execution, the scripts defining executable logic for instantiating a cloud service based on the topology, policies, and LCMAs.

11. The system of claim 6, further comprising a resource offering manager to associate the policies and LCMAs with the topology.

12. The system of claim 6, in which the LCM engine to instantiates blueprints.

13. The system of claim 12, in which the LCM engine to instantiates blueprints by:

with an interpreter, interpreting the blueprint to create an execution plan.

14. A computer program product for stitching an application model to a blueprint-derived topology, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium comprising computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising;

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, derive a topology from a blueprint to create a blueprint-derived topology;

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, stitch the blueprint-derived topology to an application model based on a number of dependencies derived between the nodes of the blueprint to form a stitched topology.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, associate a number of policies with a number nodes within the stitched topology;

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, associate a number of LCMAs with a number nodes within the stitched topology; and

computer usable program code to, when executed by a processor, instantiate the stitched topology based on the policies and LCMAs.