Policy-based application deployment to a target application platform system

• US 9,940,111 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2013
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Labocki, James, Hicks, Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daxin
• Application Number:
  US14/132,590
• Publication Number:
  US 20150169306A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/40 Transformation of program code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• 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 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

Implementations for policy-based application deployment and continuous best-fit placement across heterogeneous computing infrastructures are disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes determining that an application of a source application platform system triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds, determining, based on the metrics-based threshold that was triggered, a target application platform system to deploy the application, translating metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system, and causing the application to be deployed at the target application platform system.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining, by a processing device, that an application provided by a source application platform system has triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds by exceeding the metrics-based threshold, wherein the plurality of metrics-based thresholds correspond to a plurality of target application platform systems, and wherein the metrics-based threshold is exceeded when a rate of requests associated with the application exceeds a threshold rate of requests;

determining, by the processing device, a target application platform system from the plurality of target application platform systems that is selected by using the metrics-based threshold of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that was triggered, wherein the target application platform system provides different types of resources than the source application platform system providing the application;

translating, by the processing device, metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system;

determining a resource of the target application platform system to provide the application that corresponds to a resource of the source application platform system that is providing the application; and

causing, by the processing device, the application to be deployed at the target application platform system in view of the determined resource by using the translated metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising monitoring the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the translating the metadata utilizes a rules engine to convert fields of the metadata from the format of the source application platform system to the format of the target application system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing the application to be deployed further comprising communicating with one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the target application platform to provide the metadata in the format of the target application platform system.

9. A system comprising:

a memory; and

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

determine that an application provided by a source application platform system has triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds by exceeding the metrics-based threshold, wherein the plurality of metrics-based thresholds correspond to a plurality of target application platform systems, and wherein the metrics-based threshold is exceeded when a rate of requests associated with the application exceeds a threshold rate of requests;

determine a target application platform system from the plurality of target application platform systems that is selected by using the metrics-based threshold of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that was triggered, wherein the target application platform system provides different types of resources than the source application platform system providing the application;

translate metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system;

determine a resource of the target application platform system to provide the application that corresponds to a resource of the source application platform system that is providing the application; and

cause the application to be deployed at the target application platform system in view of the determined resource by using the translated metadata.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

11. The system of claim 9, wherein processing device is further to monitor the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric, and wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the translating the metadata utilizes a rules engine to convert fields of the metadata from the format of the source application platform system to the format of the target application system.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the causing the application to be deployed further comprising communicating with one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) of the target application platform to provide the metadata in the format of the target application platform system.

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

determine, by the processing device, that an application provided by a source application platform system has triggered a metrics-based threshold of a plurality of metrics-based thresholds by exceeding the metrics-based threshold, wherein the plurality of metrics-based thresholds correspond to a plurality of target application platform systems, and wherein the metrics-based threshold is exceeded when a rate of requests associated with the application exceeds a threshold rate of requests;

determine, by the processing device, a target application platform system from the plurality of target application platform systems that is selected by using the metrics-based threshold of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that was triggered, wherein the target application platform system provides different types of resources than the source application platform system providing the application;

translate, by the processing device, metadata of the application from a format of the source application platform system to a format of the target application platform system;

determine, by the processing device, a resource of the target application platform system to provide the application that corresponds to a resource of the source application platform system that is providing the application; and

cause, by the processing device, the application to be deployed at the target application platform system in view of the determined resource by using the translated metadata.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the source application platform system and the target application platform system comprise one of a bare metal system, a virtualized Platform-as-a-System (PaaS), a physical PaaS, or a virtualized Infrastructure-as-a-System (IaaS).

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, comprising further instructions that, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to monitor the application at the source application platform system by referencing a policy engine to compare statistics of the application against the plurality of metrics-based thresholds that comprise the policy engine.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the metrics-based threshold comprises at least one of a performance metric, a cost metric, a location metric, or a security metric, and wherein each of the plurality of metrics-based thresholds corresponds to one of a plurality of application platform systems comprising at least the source application platform system and the target application platform system.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of a runtime environment of the application, properties used for scaling the application, backup requirements of the application, restore requirements of the application, or type of code of the application.