ORCHESTRATING RESOURCES IN A MULTILAYER COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BY SENDING AN ORCHESTRATION MESSAGE BETWEEN LAYERS

• US 20160366252A1
• Filed: 06/15/2015
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chefalas, Thomas E., Egle, David M., Hiebert, Daniel L., Jurgensen, Dennis D., Meyer, Arthur J. III, Schultz, David M., Singh, Peter A.
• Granted Patent: US 9,888,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5066 Algorithms for mapping a plurality of inter-dependent sub-tasks onto a plurality of physical CPUs mappping at compile time, see G06F8/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• 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 69/30 Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks

Abstract

Software that generates a message containing program instructions for multiple layers in a multi-layer environment, by performing the following operations: (i) receiving an operation to perform across a multilayer computing environment; (ii) generating a message for performing the operation across the multilayer computing environment, wherein the message includes a plurality of layer portions, wherein each layer portion corresponds to a respective layer in the multilayer computing environment and includes computer program instructions for performing a set of sub-operation(s) of the operation; and (iii) orchestrating, by one or more processors, performance of the operation by sending the message between layers in the multilayer computing environment, wherein when the message is located at a respective layer, the layer performs its respective set of sub-operation(s) according to the computer program instructions included in the layer'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer portion of the message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, an operation to perform across a multilayer computing environment;

generating, by one or more processors, a message for performing the operation across the multilayer computing environment, wherein the message includes a plurality of layer portions, wherein each layer portion corresponds to a respective layer in the multilayer computing environment and includes computer program instructions for performing a set of sub-operation(s) of the operation; and

orchestrating, by one or more processors, performance of the operation by sending the message between layers in the multilayer computing environment, wherein when the message is located at a respective layer, the layer performs its respective set of sub-operation(s) according to the computer program instructions included in the layer'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer portion of the message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multilayer computing environment is a cloud computing environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the layers in the multilayer computing environment include at least two of the following:

an application layer, a platform layer, and an infrastructure layer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each layer portion of the message is modifiable by the layer portion'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer in the multilayer computing environment.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein at least one layer in the multilayer computing environment modifies its respectively corresponding layer portion by appending the results of the performance of the layer'"'"'s respective set of sub-operation(s) to the layer portion.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the message follows a composite design pattern, wherein a first layer portion corresponding to a first layer in the multilayer computing environment is nested within a second layer portion corresponding to a second layer in the multilayer computing environment.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message further includes an orchestration plan indicating at least a first sending layer in the multilayer computing environment and a first receiving layer in the multilayer computing environment, wherein the first sending layer is to send the message to the first receiving layer according to the orchestration plan.

8. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon:

first instructions executable by a device to cause the device to receive an operation to perform across a multilayer computing environment;

second instructions executable by the device to cause the device to generate a message for performing the operation across the multilayer computing environment, wherein the message includes a plurality of layer portions, wherein each layer portion corresponds to a respective layer in the multilayer computing environment and includes computer program instructions for performing a set of sub-operation(s) of the operation; and

third instructions executable by the device to cause the device to orchestrate performance of the operation by sending the message between layers in the multilayer computing environment, wherein when the message is located at a respective layer, the layer performs its respective set of sub-operation(s) according to the computer program instructions included in the layer'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer portion of the message.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the multilayer computing environment is a cloud computing environment.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the layers in the multilayer computing environment include at least two of the following:

an application layer, a platform layer, and an infrastructure layer.

11. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein each layer portion of the message is modifiable by the layer portion'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer in the multilayer computing environment.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein at least one layer in the multilayer computing environment modifies its respectively corresponding layer portion by appending the results of the performance of the layer'"'"'s respective set of sub-operation(s) to the layer portion.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the message follows a composite design pattern, wherein a first layer portion corresponding to a first layer in the multilayer computing environment is nested within a second layer portion corresponding to a second layer in the multilayer computing environment.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the message further includes an orchestration plan indicating at least a first sending layer in the multilayer computing environment and a first receiving layer in the multilayer computing environment, wherein the first sending layer is to send the message to the first receiving layer according to the orchestration plan.

15. A computer system comprising:

a processor(s) set; and

a computer readable storage medium;

wherein;

the processor set is structured, located, connected and/or programmed to execute instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium; and

the instructions include;

first instructions executable by the processor set to cause the system to receive an operation to perform across a multilayer computing environment;

second instructions executable by the processor set to cause the system to generate a message for performing the operation across the multilayer computing environment, wherein the message includes a plurality of layer portions, wherein each layer portion corresponds to a respective layer in the multilayer computing environment and includes computer program instructions for performing a set of sub-operation(s) of the operation; and

third instructions executable the processor set to cause the system to orchestrate performance of the operation by sending the message between layers in the multilayer computing environment, wherein when the message is located at a respective layer, the layer performs its respective set of sub-operation(s) according to the computer program instructions included in the layer'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer portion of the message.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the multilayer computing environment is a cloud computing environment.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the layers in the multilayer computing environment include at least two of the following:

an application layer, a platform layer, and an infrastructure layer.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein:

each layer portion of the message is modifiable by the layer portion'"'"'s respectively corresponding layer in the multilayer computing environment; and

at least one layer in the multilayer computing environment modifies its respectively corresponding layer portion by appending the results of the performance of the layer'"'"'s respective set of sub-operation(s) to the layer portion.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the message follows a composite design pattern, wherein a first layer portion corresponding to a first layer in the multilayer computing environment is nested within a second layer portion corresponding to a second layer in the multilayer computing environment.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the message further includes an orchestration plan indicating at least a first sending layer in the multilayer computing environment and a first receiving layer in the multilayer computing environment, wherein the first sending layer is to send the message to the first receiving layer according to the orchestration plan.