DECLARATIVE AND EXTENSIBLE MODEL FOR PROVISIONING OF CLOUD BASED SERVICES

• US 20170244613A1
• Filed: 02/28/2017
• Published: 08/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Vasudevan, Ramesh, Arun, Gopalan, Seetharam, Pradeep, Prathipati, Anjani Kalyan
• Granted Patent: US 10,212,053 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5048 Automatic or semi-automatic definitions, e.g. definition templates
• 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

Abstract

A method for offering a set of services is disclosed. The method may comprise storing, by a cloud infrastructure system, subscription order information identifying a service from a set of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, the cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may determine a service declaration for the service, the service declaration comprising information indicative of procedures for provisioning resources for enabling the service. A computing device from the one or more computing devices may cause the service to be provisioned based on the service declaration.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

generate one or more service declarations of a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations corresponding to one or more services provided by a computing infrastructure system comprising a computer system;

based on a request for a service provided by the computing infrastructure system, select a service declaration from the plurality of service declarations, wherein the service declaration includes information for enabling the service; and

enable the service, wherein enabling includes provisioning one or more resources of the computing infrastructure system using the information included in the service declaration.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the service declaration is included in the one or more service declarations that are generated, wherein generating the service declaration includes adding the information for enabling the service to the service declaration, and wherein the information is provided by a service provider of the service.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the information for enabling the service includes:

resource information defining the one or more resources for enabling the service; and

information indicative of one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the one or more resources are organized into one or more entities, each of the one or more entities corresponding to (1) a provisioned single-tenant deployment for a tenant or (2) a stack of resources that serve a plurality of tenants;

and

wherein the information indicative of one or more procedures includes a reference to one of the one or more entities to enable the service.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the service declaration is generated using a service declaration template, wherein generating the service declaration includes modifying, the service declaration template, to include the resource information and the information indicative of the one or more procedures.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the resource information or the information indicative of the one or more procedures is provided by a service provider of the service.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 3, wherein the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service include a procedure for Enterprise Manager (EM) Integration, a procedure for creation of an Identity Management (IDM), a procedure for uniform resource locator (URL) Routing, a procedure for creation of pod definitions, a procedure for creation of tenant placement plugins, a procedure for creation of per-tenant footprint plugins, a procedure for monitoring configuration, a procedure for network configuration, or a combination thereof.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the service declaration further includes client information used by the service, ordering detail information for the service, one or more service parameters for computing an overage for the service, one or more usage metrics for managing usage of the service, one or more custom attributes, one or more service associations, one or more customer notification templates, pricing information, billing information, or a combination thereof.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

select, based on the information included in the service declaration, from a database, one of a plurality of a series of tasks, the one of the plurality of series of tasks being selected for the provisioning of the one or more resources to enable the service.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the one of the plurality of series of tasks is further selected based on a lifecycle operation to be performed on the service.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the lifecycle operation includes a creation of a new subscription for a tenant, a termination of an existing subscription for the tenant, or a modification of a subscription for the tenant.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

upon determining that the lifecycle operation includes the termination of the existing subscription for the tenant, deprovision one or more resources of the computing infrastructure system based on the information included in the service declaration.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

upon determining that the lifecycle operation includes the modification of the subscription for the tenant, modify the provisioning of the one or more resources of the computing infrastructure system based on the information included in the service declaration.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the enabling of the service is performed based on determining that the lifecycle operation is the creation of the new subscription for the tenant.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the information includes scaling information to enable the service based on a number of tenants of the service.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the scaling information includes quantity information indicating a quantity of the one or more resources corresponding to a number of tenants of the service.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein:

the information is organized based on a declarative model including one or more declarations; and

wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to;

determine one or more tasks for enabling the service, the one or more tasks determined based on the one or more declarations, wherein the one or more tasks are not included in the information.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, further cause the one or more processors to:

select the service declaration from the plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of services provided by computing infrastructure system, wherein the service declaration is selected from the plurality of service declarations by determining that the service declaration corresponds to the service.

19. A method, comprising:

generating, by one or more processors, one or more service declarations of a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations corresponding to one or more services provided by a computing infrastructure system comprising a computer system;

based on a request for a service provided by the computing infrastructure system, selecting, by the one or more processors, a service declaration from the plurality of service declarations, wherein the service declaration includes information for enabling the service; and

enabling, by one or more processors, the service, wherein enabling includes provisioning one or more resources of the computing infrastructure system using the information included in the service declaration.

20. A system, comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing one or more instructions; and

one or more processors that, upon executing the one or more instructions, are configured to;

generate one or more service declarations of a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations corresponding to one or more services provided by a computing infrastructure system comprising a computer system;

based on a request for a service provided by the computing infrastructure system, select a service declaration from the plurality of service declarations, wherein the service declaration includes information for enabling the service; and

enable the service, wherein enabling includes provisioning one or more resources of the computing infrastructure system using the information included in the service declaration.