Managing hosted resources across different virtualization platforms

• US 10,776,174 B2
• Filed: 05/24/2018
• Issued: 09/15/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Walters, Matthew, Dutta, Tanmoy, Hunter, Jr., Barry B., McAlister, Grant Alexander Macdonald, Myers, Daniel, Nambiar, Rahul, Pichai, Bharath Subramanian, Porter, Mark, Tighe, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): Cao, Diem K
• Application Number:
  US15/988,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20190361748A1
• Time in Patent Office: 845 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5061 Partitioning or combining of resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• 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

Resources hosted in different virtualization platforms may be managed across the different virtualization platform. Requests to perform types of actions with respect to a resource hosted in a type of virtualization platform may be received. Mapping information between types of actions and actions available via interfaces for different types of virtualization platforms may be evaluated to select actions for an interface of the type of virtualization platform that hosts the resource. The selected actions may then be performed via the interface to perform the action with regard to the resource.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store program instructions which, if performed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method to at least;

receive a request at a control plane for resources implemented in a first network to perform a type of requested action with respect to a resource hosted on a type of virtualization platform in a second network;

evaluate a mapping between different types of requested actions, and actions available via interfaces for different virtualization platforms in other networks, to select one or more of the available actions to perform the type of requested action via an interface for the type of virtualization platform; and

cause the one or more of the available actions to be performed via the interface with respect to the resource hosted in the second network.

2. The system of claim 1,

wherein the program instructions cause the at least one processor to further perform the method to at least:

perform one or more modifications to transform data to perform the type of requested action before sending the data to the second network;

or

perform one or more modifications to transform data to perform the type of requested action after receiving the data from the second network.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein to cause the one or more of the available actions to be performed via the interface with respect to the resource hosted in the second network, the program instructions cause the at least one processor to perform the method to at least send one or more requests to a control plane agent hosted in a same network that hosts the resource to cause the control plane agent to initiate the one or more of the available actions via the interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the control plane is a control plane for a database service implemented as part of a provider network, wherein the second network is private network, and wherein the resource is a database instance implementing a same type of database engine as implemented by other database instances hosted in the database service of the provider network.

5. A method, comprising:

responsive to a request to perform a type of requested action with respect to a resource hosted on a type of virtualization platform;

selecting one or more available actions to perform the type of requested action via an interface for the type of virtualization platform based, at least in part, on a mapping between different types of requested actions and available actions available via interfaces for different virtualization platforms; and

causing the one or more available actions to be performed via the interface.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising performing one or more modifications to transform data for performing the type of requested action.

7. The method of claim 5,

wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received at a control plane for resources implemented in a first network, wherein the resource is hosted in a second network;

and

wherein the method further comprises performing one or more operations within the first network to perform the type of requested action.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a request to perform a second type of requested action with respect to the resource; and

returning an error indication responsive to determining that the second type of requested action is unsupported for the resource.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

monitoring performance metrics for the resource to detect an automated type of requested action for the resource; and

wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is generated in response to the detection of the automated type of requested action for the resource.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received via an interface for a control plane of a service from a client of the service, wherein the service hosts at least one other resource on a different type of virtualization platform, and wherein the control plane is for both the at least one other resource and the resource, and wherein the resource is hosted external to the service.

11. The method of claim 5, wherein causing the one or more available actions to be performed via the interface comprises sending one or more requests to a control plane agent hosted in a same network that hosts the resource to cause the control plane agent to initiate the one or more available actions via the interface.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a request for a control plane agent;

providing the control plane agent responsive to the request for the control plane agent; and

receiving an indication of the resource from the control plane agent in order to allow available actions to be performed with respect to the resource.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received at a control system implemented in a first network that hosts resources according to a virtualization platform different than the virtualization platform that hosts the resource and wherein the resource is hosted in second network.

14. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, storing program instructions that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to implement:

receiving a request to perform a type of requested action with respect to a resource hosted on a type of virtualization platform;

evaluating a mapping between different types of requested actions and available actions available via interfaces for different virtualization platforms to select one or more of the available actions to perform the type of requested action via an interface for the type of virtualization platform; and

causing the one or more of the available actions to be performed via the interface.

15. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the program instructions cause the one or more computing devices to further implement performing one or more modifications to transform data for performing the type of requested action.

16. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14,

wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received at a control plane for resources implemented in a first network, wherein the resource is hosted in a second network;

and

wherein the program instructions cause the one or more computing devices to further implement performing one or more operations within the first network to perform the type of requested action.

17. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is formatted according to first API for a first type of virtualization platform, wherein the type of virtualization platform hosting the resource is a second type of virtualization platform, and wherein the selected one or more of the available actions are formatted according to a second API for the second type of virtualization platform.

18. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received via an interface for a control plane of a service from a client of the service, wherein the service hosts at least one other resource on a different type of virtualization platform, and wherein the control plane is for both the at least one other resource and the resource, and wherein the resource is hosted external to the service.

19. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the request to perform the type of requested action is received at a control plane of a service offered by a provider network, wherein the resource hosted on the virtualization platform is hosted external to the provider network.

20. The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the resource is hosted in another service offered by another provider network.