Downloadable cartridges for a multi-tenant platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system

• US 9,251,030 B2
• Filed: 02/25/2014
• Issued: 02/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: McGrath, Michael, Honce, Jhon, Morie, Paul, Mace, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): WASEL, MOHAMED A
• Application Number:
  US14/188,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20150195337A1
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/122 using management policies backup systems G06F11/1446; file migration policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/219 Managing data history or versioning querying versioned data G06F16/2474; querying temporal data G06F16/2477
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2329 using versioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

Implementations for downloadable cartridges for a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, a location of a cartridge manifest corresponding to a cartridge that is maintained outside of the multi-tenant PaaS system, downloading the cartridge manifest from the received location, parsing the downloaded cartridge manifest to determine a source location of files of the cartridge, the source location separate from the multi-tenant PaaS system, and causing the files of the cartridge to be obtained from the determined source location for use by at least one node of the multi-tenant PaaS system that is hosting an application requesting the cartridge.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, a location of a cartridge manifest corresponding to a cartridge that is maintained outside of the multi-tenant PaaS system;

downloading, by the processing device, the cartridge manifest from the received location;

parsing, by the processing device, the downloaded cartridge manifest to determine a source location of files of the cartridge, the source location separate from the multi-tenant PaaS system; and

causing, by the processing device, the files of the cartridge to be obtained from the determined source location for use by at least one node of the multi-tenant PaaS system that is hosting an application requesting the cartridge.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the cartridges each provide functionality to execute applications on the multi-tenant PaaS system, the functionality comprising at least one of configuration templates, scripts, dependencies, or features to add to the applications.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cartridge manifest comprising a file detailing features of the cartridge and comprising fields utilized by the multi-tenant PaaS system to deploy the cartridge to the at least one node.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the cartridge manifest is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the parsing further comprises locating a source location field of the cartridge manifest and determining data of the source location field to indicate the source location of the files of the cartridge.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the source location of the files of the cartridge is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the node is a virtual machine (VM) hosting the application, and wherein the cartridge is executed as part of a gear that comprises a resource-constrained processing space of the VM.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the cartridge is a downloadable cartridge.

9. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device communicably coupled to the memory; and

a cartridge download component executable from the memory by the processing device, the cartridge download component to;

receive a location of a cartridge manifest corresponding to a cartridge that is maintained outside of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system hosting the cartridge download component;

download the cartridge manifest from the received location;

parse the downloaded cartridge manifest to determine a source location of files of the cartridge, the source location separate from the multi-tenant PaaS system; and

cause the files of the cartridge to be obtained from the determined source location for use by at least one node of the multi-tenant PaaS system that is hosting an application requesting the cartridge.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the cartridges each provide functionality to execute applications on the multi-tenant PaaS system, the functionality comprising at least one of configuration templates, scripts, dependencies, or features to add to the applications.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the cartridge manifest comprising a file detailing features of the cartridge and comprising fields utilized by the multi-tenant PaaS system to deploy the cartridge to the at least one node.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the location of the cartridge manifest is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the cartridge download component to parse the cartridge manifest further comprises the cartridge download component to locate a source location field of the cartridge manifest and determine data of the source location field to indicate the source location of the files of the cartridge.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the source location of the files of the cartridge is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the node is a virtual machine (VM) hosting the application, and wherein the cartridge is executed as part of a gear that comprises a resource-constrained processing space of the VM.

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

receiving, by the processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, a location of a cartridge manifest corresponding to a cartridge that is maintained outside of the multi-tenant PaaS system;

downloading, by the processing device, the cartridge manifest from the received location;

parsing, by the processing device, the downloaded cartridge manifest to determine a source location of files of the cartridge, the source location separate from the multi-tenant PaaS system; and

causing, by the processing device, the files of the cartridge to be obtained from the determined source location for use by at least one node of the multi-tenant PaaS system that is hosting an application requesting the cartridge.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the cartridges each provide functionality to execute applications on the multi-tenant PaaS system, the functionality comprising at least one of configuration templates, scripts, dependencies, or features to add to the applications.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the cartridge manifest comprising a file detailing features of the cartridge and comprising fields utilized by the multi-tenant PaaS system to deploy the cartridge to the at least one node.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the parsing further comprises locating a source location field of the cartridge manifest and determining data of the source location field to indicate the source location of the files of the cartridge.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the node is a virtual machine (VM) hosting the application, and wherein the cartridge is executed as part of a gear that comprises a resource-constrained processing space of the VM.