INDEPENDENT SERVICES PLATFORM

• US 20200133737A1
• Filed: 10/29/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gunaratne, Rajasinghe Saman, Naik, Jatin Suryakiran, McNeeney, Matthew, O'Donnell, Matthew, King, Edward James Gordon
• Granted Patent: US 10,884,815 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45562 Creating, deleting, cloning virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45583 Memory management, e.g. access or allocation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45587 Isolation or security of virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• 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
• 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
• 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

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing an independent services platform. One of the methods includes maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of a distributed computing system. A services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system is also maintained, wherein the second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more service instances of the service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure. The second services platform system is configured to receive a bind request from a user and to provide binding information to one or more computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system upon receiving the bind request.

Claims

1. A distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the plurality of computers, to cause the plurality of computers perform operations comprising:

maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the first software platform system is configured to receive a computing task, provision computing resources in an underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more instances of the computing task using the provisioned computing resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure; and

maintaining a second services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more service instances of the service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to receive a bind request from a user and to provide, by the second services platform system, binding information to one or more computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system upon receiving the bind request.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second services platform system is independent of the first software platform system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein service instances in the second services platform system can be launched with or without the first software platform system.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein service instances in the second services platform system have hardware isolation from provisioned resources for computing tasks in the first software platform system.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein maintaining the second services platform system comprises launching service instances in the second services platform system before launching any computing tasks in the first software platform system.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the first software platform system is a container orchestration platform configured to host container workloads in a first container cluster.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the second services platform is configured to bind a single service to both container workloads in the first container cluster and container workloads in a separate second container cluster hosted by the container orchestration platform.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first software platform system is a cloud application platform configured to host developer-supplied applications.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

maintaining a container orchestration platform that is separate from the cloud application platform, wherein the container orchestration platform is configured to host container workloads in a container cluster,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to bind a single service to both applications hosted by the cloud application platform and container workloads hosted by the container orchestration platform.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

launching, by the second services platform system, one or more service instances for a particular service;

receiving, by the second services platform system, a first bind request to bind the particular service to a platform application hosted by the cloud application platform;

in response, providing, by the second services platform system, first binding information to the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform;

receiving, by the second services platform system, a second bind request to bind the particular service to a container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform; and

in response, providing, by the second services platform system, second binding information to the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein providing the first binding information to the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform and providing the second binding information to the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform causes the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform and the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform to use the same service instances provisioned in the second services platform system.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

maintaining a separate second cloud application platform,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to bind a single service to both applications hosted by the cloud application platform and applications hosted by the separate second cloud application platform.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the second services platform system is configure to bind a service to a software application that is not hosted by the first software platform system.

14. A method performed by a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers, the method comprising:

maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the first software platform system is configured to receive a computing task, provision computing resources in an underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more instances of the computing task using the provisioned computing resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure; and

maintaining a second services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more service instances of the service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to receive a bind request from a user and to provide, by the second services platform system, binding information to one or more computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system upon receiving the bind request.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second services platform system is independent of the first software platform system.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein maintaining the second services platform system comprises launching service instances in the second services platform system before launching any computing tasks in the first software platform system.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the first software platform system is a container orchestration platform configured to host container workloads in a first container cluster.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the first software platform system is a cloud application platform configured to host developer-supplied applications.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

maintaining a container orchestration platform that is separate from the cloud application platform, wherein the container orchestration platform is configured to host container workloads in a container cluster,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to bind a single service to both applications hosted by the cloud application platform and container workloads hosted by the container orchestration platform.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

launching, by the second services platform system, one or more service instances for a particular service;

receiving, by the second services platform system, a first bind request to bind the particular service to a platform application hosted by the cloud application platform;

in response, providing, by the second services platform system, first binding information to the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform;

receiving, by the second services platform system, a second bind request to bind the particular service to a container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform; and

in response, providing, by the second services platform system, second binding information to the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein providing the first binding information to the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform and providing the second binding information to the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform causes the platform application hosted by the cloud application platform and the container workload hosted by the container orchestration platform to use the same service instances provisioned in the second services platform system.

22. One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by a distributed system comprising a plurality of computers cause the plurality of computers to perform operations comprising:

maintaining a first software platform system configured to host user-provided computing tasks in a cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the first software platform system is configured to receive a computing task, provision computing resources in an underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more instances of the computing task using the provisioned computing resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure; and

maintaining a second services platform system configured to host services in the cloud computing environment of the distributed computing system, wherein the second services platform system is configured to provision independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure, and launch one or more service instances of the service using the provisioned independent service resources in the underlying cloud computing infrastructure,

wherein the second services platform system is configured to receive a bind request from a user and to provide, by the second services platform system, binding information to one or more computing tasks hosted by the first software platform system upon receiving the bind request.