APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

• US 20150256392A1
• Filed: 05/21/2015
• Published: 09/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jamal Mazhar
• Original Assignee: Kaavo Inc.
• Inventors: Mazhar, Jamal, Pervez, Muhammad Shahzad
• Granted Patent: US 9,853,861 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5088 involving task migration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5064 Customer relationship management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/83 based on usage prediction

Abstract

Methods, devices, and systems for management of a cloud computing environment for use by a software application. The cloud computing environment may be an N-tier environment. Multiple cloud providers may be used to provide the cloud computing environment.

Claims

1. A method for managing a cloud computing environment, the method comprising:

sending, by a computer system to one or more computing resources of the cloud computing environment and based on provisioning information, a cloud environment initialization event, the initialization event causing an application cloud environment configuration of the cloud computing environment to be made available to a software application, wherein the application cloud environment configuration comprises an initialization event data-dependent configuration of the computing resources of the cloud computing environment for execution of the application; and

subsequently sending, by the computer system, software application data to the cloud computing environment, which, upon receipt, causes the software application to begin execution in available tiers of the application cloud environment configuration of the cloud computing environment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending of the cloud environment initialization event comprises passing one or more software objects that contain information related to provisioning of the computing resources of the cloud computing environment for the application cloud environment configuration.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the provisioning information comprises user-defined provisioning information determined using user input received via a user interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the provisioning information comprises user-defined provisioning information determined using user input provided by another computer system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the provisioning information comprises user-defined provisioning information including security requirements.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application data includes one or more of:

specification/configuration data for the software application, and computer-usable code of the software application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application data comprises computer-usable code defining the software application configured to be executed in a non-cloud computing environment.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the computer system receiving monitoring data from the cloud computing environment.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising the computer sending a cloud environment adjustment event to the cloud computing environment to cause adjustment of the application cloud environment configuration by increasing, decreasing, or changing those of the computing resources assigned to the application cloud environment configuration.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein sending the cloud environment adjustment event comprises passing one or more software objects that contain information related to provisioning of the computing resources of the cloud computing environment for the application cloud environment configuration.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the adjustment of the application cloud environment configuration depends on information included in the cloud environment adjustment event.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the cloud environment adjustment event is configured based on a requested adjusted cloud environment, which in turn is determined based on monitoring data from the cloud computing environment.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing resources of the cloud computing environment include one or more load balancers.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising the computer system communicating with a user device communicatively coupled to the computer system via a network.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the network comprises the Internet.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein communications between the user device and the cloud computing environment are facilitated via a graphical user interface (GUI).

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising the computer system receiving user input via a user interface, said user input specifying information that determines the provisioning information.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing resources of the cloud computing environment include virtual servers.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising the computer sending a cloud environment adjustment event to the cloud computing environment to cause adjustment of the application cloud environment configuration according to utilization of those of the computing resources of the cloud computing environment.