QUALITY OF SERVICE TAGGING FOR COMPUTING JOBS

• US 20170097851A1
• Filed: 10/06/2015
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Chen, Huamin
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,232 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A processing device receives a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job. The job is related to an application. The job request specifies the job using a first description language. The processing device extracts one or more tags from the job request. The one or more tags describes handling parameters of the job and features of the application. The one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language. The processing device allocates one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processing device, a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job, the job being related to an application, the job request specifying the job using a first description language;

extracting one or more tags from the job request, the one or more tags describing handling parameters of the job and features of the application, wherein the one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language; and

allocating one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more tags are received from a job submission system that requests jobs for container-based applications.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

accessing mapping information that maps a plurality of tags to a plurality of resource requirements; and

translating the one or more tags into one or more resource requirements via the mapping information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more tags are embedded in metadata of the job request, the metadata being in the second description language different from the first description language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more tags in the job request are selected from a set of tags defined by a system administrator of the resource environment.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a group of job requests, where the job requests in the group are a sub-set of job requests from a plurality of job requests having at least one matching tag; and

allocating one or more same resources in the resource environment to the group of job requests.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein allocating one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags comprises:

determining whether one or more tags indicate data for the job is secure data; and

determining to instantiate a container if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is not secure data and determining to instantiate a virtual machine if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is secure data.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:

receive, by a processing device, a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job, the job being related to an application, the job request specifying the job using a first description language;

extract one or more tags from the job request, the one or more tags describing handling parameters of the job and features of the application, wherein the one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language;

determine whether to instantiate a container or a virtual machine for the job in view of the one or more tags describing handling parameters of the job and features of the application; and

allocate one or more resources in the resource environment to instantiate the container or the virtual machine for deploying the application for the job.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein to determine whether to instantiate a container or a virtual machine for the job, the processing device is to:

determine whether one or more tags indicate data for the job is secure data; and

determine to instantiate a container if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is not secure data and determine to instantiate a virtual machine if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is secure data.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

access mapping information that maps a plurality of tags to a plurality of resource requirements; and

translate the one or more tags into one or more resource requirements via the mapping information.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the one or more tags are embedded in metadata of the job request, the metadata being in the second description language different from the first description language.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the one or more tags in the job request are selected from a set of tags defined by a system administrator of the resource environment.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further to:

create a group of job requests, where the job requests in the group are a sub-set of job requests from a plurality of job requests having at least one matching tag; and

allocate one or more same resources in the resource environment to the group of job requests.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more tags are received from a job submission system that requests jobs for container-based applications.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the processing device is further to:

access mapping information that maps a plurality of tags to a plurality of resource requirements; and

translate the one or more tags into one or more resource requirements via the mapping information.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more tags are embedded in metadata of the job request, the metadata being in the second description language different from the first description language.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more tags in the job request are selected from a set of tags defined by a system administrator of the resource environment.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the processing device is further to:

create a group of job requests, where the job requests in the group are a sub-set of job requests from a plurality of job requests having at least one matching tag; and

allocate one or more same resources in the resource environment to the group of job requests.

14. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, to;

receive a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job, the job being related to an application, the job request specifying the job using a first description language;

extract one or more tags from the job request, the one or more tags describing handling parameters of the job and features of the application, wherein the one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language; and

allocate one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein to allocate one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags, the processing device is to:

determine whether one or more tags indicate data for the job is secure data; and

determine to instantiate a container if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is not secure data and determining to instantiate a virtual machine if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is secure data.