Declarative and extensible model for provisioning of cloud based services

• US 9,621,435 B2
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tammy
• Application Number:
  US13/907,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20140075032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,411 Days
• Field of Search: 709226, 709250, 709224, 709220, 709223, 370538, 370335, 370437
• 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 method comprising:

receiving, by a cloud infrastructure system comprising one or more computing devices, an order for a first service from a plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system;

storing, by the cloud infrastructure system, subscription order information related to the order;

selecting, by the cloud infrastructure system, based on the first service, a first service declaration from a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations comprising;

(1) resource information defining one or more resources for enabling a service of the plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system; and

(2) information indicative of one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service; and

enabling, by the cloud infrastructure system, the first service, the enabling including provisioning the one or more resources defined by the resource information in the first service declaration, wherein the provisioning includes executing the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration; and

wherein the first service declaration is created using a service declaration template, the service declaration template including one or more fields, wherein each of the one or more fields are modified from the service declaration template to create the first service declaration, and wherein a field of the one or more fields is associated with the information indicative of the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the first service.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prior to the storing the subscription order information, receiving one or more input parameters from a service provider, wherein the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration is defined based on the one or more input parameters.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service include at least one of:

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, or a procedure for network configuration.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first service declaration further includes information indicative of one or more service parameters, the one or more service parameters including one or more of:

client information used by the service, ordering details for the service, service parameters for computing overages, usage metrics for managing usage of the service, various custom attributes, one or more service associations, one or more customer notification templates, pricing information, or billing information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first service is enabled by an orchestration engine, wherein the orchestration engine executes a task execution template for each lifecycle operation of the first service in accordance with the first service declaration, and wherein the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration indicate an execution flow for the lifecycle operation.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the lifecycle operation includes a creation of a new subscription for a tenant, a termination of an existing subscription for a tenant, or a modification of a subscription for a tenant.

7. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices that provides a plurality of services; and

a memory configurable to store subscription order information identifying a service ordered from the plurality of services provided by a cloud infrastructure system, wherein the memory stores one or more instructions that, upon execution by the one or more computing devices, causes the one or more computing devices to;

receive an order for a first service from the plurality of services;

store, in the memory, subscription order information related to the order;

select, based on the first service, a first service declaration from a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations comprising;

(1) resource information defining one or more resources for enabling a service of the plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system; and

(2) information indicative of one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service; and

enable the first service, the enabling including provisioning the one or more resources defined by the resource information in the first service declaration, wherein the provisioning includes executing the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration; and

wherein the first service declaration is created using a service declaration template, the service declaration template including one or more fields, wherein each of the one or more fields are modified from the service declaration template to create the first service declaration, and wherein a field of the one or more fields is associated with the information indicative of the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the first service.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more instructions that, upon execution by the one or more computing devices, further causes the one or more computing devices to:

prior to the storing the subscription order information, receive one or more input parameters from a service provider, wherein the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration are defined based on the one or more input parameters define the one or more procedures.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service include at least one of:

a procedure for provisioning physical components, a procedure for Enterprise Manager (EM) Integration, a procedure for creation of an Identity Management (IDM) Footprint, 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 identity management footprint configuration, or a procedure for network configuration.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the first service declaration further includes information indicative of one or more service parameters, the one or more service parameters including two or more of:

proprietary client information used by the service, ordering details for the service, service parameters for computing overages, usage metrics to be used for the service, various custom attributes, service associations, customer notification templates, pricing information, or billing information.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the first is enabled by an orchestration engine, wherein the orchestration engine executes a task execution template for each lifecycle operation of the first service in accordance with the service declaration, and wherein the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration indicate an execution flow for the lifecycle operation.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the lifecycle operation includes a creation of a new subscription for a tenant, a termination of an existing subscription for a tenant, or a modification of a subscription for a tenant.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for a cloud infrastructure system configured to offer a set of cloud services that, the computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices in the cloud infrastructure system, cause the one or more computing devices to:

receive an order for a first service from a plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system;

store subscription order information related to the order;

select, based on the first service, a first service declaration from a plurality of service declarations, each of the plurality of service declarations comprising;

(1) resource information defining one or more resources for enabling a service of the plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system; and

(2) information indicative of one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the service; and

enable the first service, the enabling including provisioning the one or more resources defined by the resource information in the first service declaration, wherein the provisioning includes executing the one or more procedures indicated by the information in the first service declaration; and

wherein the first service declaration is created using a service declaration template, the service declaration template including one or more fields, wherein each of the one or more fields are modified from the service declaration template to create the first service declaration, and wherein a field of the one or more fields is associated with the information indicative of the one or more procedures for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the first service.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13, the computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more computing devices in the cloud infrastructure system, further cause the one or more computing devices to:

receive one or more input parameters from a customer, wherein the one or more input parameters are required by the first service declaration in order for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the first service.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the first service declaration is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document that includes processing aspects and physical aspects for provisioning the one or more resources for enabling the first service.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the processing aspects of provisioning include at least one of:

information about different service offerings, proprietary client information, ordering, one or more overages, one or more usage metrics, one or more custom attributes, one or more service associations, one or more customer notification templates, pricing information, or billing information.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the physical aspects of provisioning include information about at least one of:

physical storage, one or more physical components, Enterprise Manager (EM) Integration, Identity Management (IDM) Footprint, uniform resource locator (URL) Routing, one or more preconfigured set of resources definitions, one or more tenant placement plugins, one or more per-tenant footprint creation plugins, monitoring configuration, identity management footprint configuration, or network configuration.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the subscription order information indicates the plurality of services provided by the cloud infrastructure system, and wherein the subscription order information includes at least one of:

service information, service configuration information, or trial configuration information.

19. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the first service is enabled by an orchestration engine, wherein the orchestration engine executes a task execution template for a lifecycle operation of the first service to be provisioned in accordance with the first service declaration.

20. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 19, wherein the orchestration engine includes at least one of:

a request processor, a request poller, or a request processing engine.