Geographic placement of application components by a multi-tenant platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system

• US 9,936,001 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2014
• Issued: 04/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: McGrath, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): WON, MICHAEL YOUNG
• Application Number:
  US14/181,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20150237114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 709201, 709221, 709230, 709226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/502 Proximity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• 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

Implementations for geographic placement of application components by a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes providing, by a processing device of a multi-tenant PaaS system, a list of geographic locations to a user of a multi-tenant PaaS system, receiving, by the processing device from the user, a first request to deploy a component of an application corresponding to the user, the first request comprising a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list, and communicating, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the component of the application, the second request directed to a messaging server dedicated to the selected geographic location of the user, the dedicated messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of a node in the selected geographic location for the component of the application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing, by a processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-a-a-Service (PaaS) system in communication with a plurality of messaging servers where each messaging server corresponds to a distinct geographic location, a list of available geographic locations, wherein each of the geographic locations corresponds to at least one node that is associated with at least one component of an application, and wherein the at least one component of the application specifies a resource limit to a process space of the at least one node that is associated with the at least one component of the application, and wherein the processes space is unique to the application and to the at least one node;

receiving, by the processing device, a first request to deploy the at least one component of the application, the first request comprising a selection of one of the available geographic locations from the list; and

communicating, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the at least one component of the application in view of the resource limit to the process space, the second request directed to a messaging server corresponding to the selected geographic location, the corresponding messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of the at least one node in the selected geographic location for the at least one component of the application in view of a communication with another messaging server corresponding to another geographic location.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communicating further comprises sending the second request directly to the corresponding messaging server for the selected geographic location.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a success response from the at least one node confirming deployment of the at least one component of the application; and

communicating the success response to a user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one node is a virtual machine deployed in a server machine in the selected geographic location.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one component comprises a gear from the application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one component comprises a cartridge for the application.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising when the first request does not comprise a selection of one of the geographic locations from the list, indicating a default geographic location in the second request.

8. A system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to;

provide a list of available geographic locations associated with a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system in communication with a plurality of messaging servers where each messaging server corresponds to a distinct geographic location, wherein each of the geographic locations corresponds to at least one node associated with at least one component of an application, and wherein the at least one component of the application specifies a resource limit to a process space of the at least one node that is associated with the at least one component of the application, and wherein the processes space is unique to the application and to the at least one node;

receive a first request to deploy the at least one component of the application, the first request comprising a selection of one of the available geographic locations from the list; and

communicate a second request to deploy the at least one component of the application in view of the resource limit to the process space, the second request directed to a messaging server corresponding to the selected geographic location, the corresponding messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of the at least one node in the selected geographic location for the at least one component of the application in view of a communication with another messaging server corresponding to another geographic location.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein to communicate, the processing device is to send the second request directly to the corresponding messaging server for the selected geographic location.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the processing device further to:

receive a success response from the at least one node confirming deployment of the at least one component of the application; and

communicate the success response to a user.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one node is a virtual machine deployed in a server machine in the selected geographic location.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one component comprises at least one of a gear for the application or a cartridge for the application.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the processing device further to:

indicate a default geographic location in the second request when the first request does not comprise a selection of one of the available geographic locations from the list.

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

provide, by the processing device of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, a list of geographic locations, the multi-tenant PaaS system being in communication with a plurality of messaging servers where each messaging server corresponds to a distinct geographic location, wherein each of the geographic locations corresponds to at least one node associated with at least one component of an application, and wherein the at least one component of the application specifies a resource limit to a process space of the at least one node that is associated with the at least one component of the application, and wherein the processes space is unique to the application and to the at least one node;

receive, by the processing device, a first request to deploy the at least one component of the application, the first request comprising a selection of one of the available geographic locations from the list; and

communicate, by the processing device, a second request to deploy the at least one component of the application in view of the resource limit to the process space, the second request directed to a messaging server corresponding to the selected geographic location, the corresponding messaging server of the selected geographic location to handle a configuration of the at least one node in the selected geographic location for the at least one component of the application in view of a communication with another messaging server corresponding to another geographic location.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein to communicate, the processing device is to send the second request directly to the corresponding messaging server for the selected geographic location.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, further to:

receive a success response from the at least one node confirming deployment of the at least one component of the application; and

communicate the success response to a user.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 14, further to:

indicate a default geographic location in the second request when the first request does not comprise a selection of one of the available geographic locations from the list.