Facilitating the execution of web applications in the cloud

• US 8,966,450 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2011
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Kunze, Tobias, Roth, Issac
• Primary Examiner(s): Tecklu, Isaac T
• Application Number:
  US13/151,183
• Publication Number:
  US 20110302569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/127
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/62 Uninstallation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects

Abstract

A facility for executing an application program in a cloud computing environment is described. The facility identifies dependencies of the application program, and identifies support software components that satisfy the identified dependencies. The facility then causes the application to be executed in conjunction with the identified support software components on the nodes of the cloud computing environment on which they were installed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a processing device, a software package associated with an application program, the software package comprising an operating system of a virtual machine executable by a hypervisor;

installing the software package on a host running the hypervisor;

identifying a dependency of executing the application program on the virtual machine;

installing on the virtual machine a support software component that satisfies the dependency;

causing the application program to be executed on the virtual machine; and

collecting monitoring data generated by the support software component during execution, the monitoring data describing the execution of the application program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the support software component and the monitoring data are both stored in the same package.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating a display containing visual information aggregated from the monitoring data.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the display is generated by the support software component.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein installing the support software component comprises:

examining attributes of available support software components to identify a support software component that provides abstract features specified by the dependency.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the package comprises code to collect and aggregate the monitoring data.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving monitoring data transmitted by one or more other nodes in a cluster;

storing the received monitoring data in the package; and

aggregating the monitoring data generated and exported on all the nodes in the cluster.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein causing the application program to be executed on the virtual machine comprises:

receiving code designed to be executed by a language runtime component and called by a dynamic web server component;

selecting a static web server component;

selecting a dynamic web server component suited to the code;

selecting a language runtime component suited to the code;

installing the received code and the selected components on a cloud node, together with executable code for;

collecting and correlating monitoring data produced by the selected components;

storing the correlated monitoring data;

generating reports that are based upon the stored monitoring data; and

executing the received code, selected components, and executable code on the cloud node.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein:

the support software component is instrumented to generate data describing the software support component'"'"'s processing of transactions on behalf of the application program; and

the package comprises code to form cross-component transaction records by collecting data that relates to the same transaction.

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

identifying, by the processing device, a software package associated with an application program, the software package comprising an operating system of a virtual machine executable by a hypervisor;

installing the software package on a host running the hypervisor;

identifying a dependency of executing the application program on the virtual machine;

installing on the virtual machine a support software component that satisfies the dependency;

causing the application program to be executed on the virtual machine; and

collecting monitoring data generated by the support software component during execution, the monitoring data describing the execution of the application program.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the support software component and the monitoring data are both stored in the same package.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise generating a display containing visual information aggregated from the monitoring data.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the display is generated by the support software component.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein installing the support software component comprises:

examining attributes of available support software components to identify a support software component that provides abstract features specified by the dependency.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the package comprises code to collect and aggregate the monitoring data.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving monitoring data transmitted by one or more other nodes in a cluster;

storing the received monitoring data in the package; and

aggregating the monitoring data generated and exported on all the nodes in the cluster.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein causing the application program to be executed on the virtual machine comprises:

receiving code designed to be executed by a language runtime component and called by a dynamic web server component;

selecting a static web server component;

selected a dynamic web server component suited to the code;

selecting a language runtime component suited to the code;

installing the received code and the selected components on a cloud node, together with executable code for;

collecting and correlating monitoring data produced by the selected components;

storing the correlated monitoring data;

generating reports that are based upon the stored monitoring data; and

executing the received code, selected components, and executable code on the cloud node.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein:

the support software component is instrumented to generate data describing the software support component'"'"'s processing of transactions on behalf of the application program; and

the package comprises code to form cross-component transaction records by collecting data that relates to the same transaction.

19. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, coupled to the memory, to;

identify a software package associated with an application program, the software package comprising an operating system of a virtual machine executable by a hypervisor;

install the software package on a host running the hypervisor;

identify a dependency of executing the application program on the virtual machine;

installing on the virtual machine a support software component that satisfies the dependency;

cause the application program to be executed on the virtual machine; and

collect monitoring data generated by the support software component during execution, the monitoring data describing the execution of the application program.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the support software component and the monitoring data are stored in the same package.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the processor is further to generate a display containing visual information aggregated from the monitoring data.

22. The system of claim 21 wherein the display is generated by the support software component.

23. The system of claim 20, wherein the package comprises code to collect and aggregate the monitoring data.

24. The system of claim 19, wherein the processor is to cause the application to be executed on the virtual machine by:

receiving code designed to be executed by a language runtime component and called by a dynamic web server component;

selecting a static web server component;

selecting a dynamic web server component suited to the code;

selecting a language runtime component suited to the code;

installing the received code and the selected components on a cloud node, together with executable code for;

collecting and correlating monitoring data produced by the selected components;

storing the correlated monitoring data;

generating reports that are based upon the stored monitoring data; and

executing the received code, selected components, and executable code on the cloud node.

25. The system of claim 20, wherein:

the support software component is instrumented to generate data describing the software support component'"'"'s processing of transactions on behalf of the application program; and

the package comprises code to form cross-component transaction records by collecting data that relates to the same transaction.