Discovery and modeling of deployment actions for multiple deployment engine providers

• US 9,940,103 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Berg, Daniel C., Elder, Michael D., Gaponenko, Yulia, Poddar, Indrajit, Pravosud, Yuri
• Primary Examiner(s): Bullock, Jr., Lewis A
• Assistant Examiner(s): KEPNANG, GILLES R
• Application Number:
  US13/909,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20140007039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,771 Days
• Field of Search: 709222, 709220, 709200, 709226, 717176-178, 717174, 717136, 718 1, 718104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• 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

Provided are techniques for modeling operational units, each operational unit corresponding to an operational workflow and to one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines; selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the corresponding deployment engines; ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow; grouping the ordered operation units according to the selected deployment engines into deployment engine groupings; mapping output parameters corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping to input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, inserting between the first operational unit and the second operational unit a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping and as second deployment engine corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping to generate a multi-deployment engine operational workflow.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

modeling a plurality of operational units, each operational unit implementing a portion of an operational workflow by one or more deployment engines of a plurality of deployment engines;

selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the deployment engines of the one or more deployment engines;

ordering the operational units with respect to the operational workflow;

grouping the ordered operational units according to the selected deployment engines into a plurality of deployment engine groupings;

generating a first mapping showing a correlation between the plurality of operational units among the plurality of deployment engines;

generating a second mapping of, by a processor, a plurality of output parameters, corresponding to a first operational unit that concludes a first deployment engine grouping of the plurality of deployment engine groupings, to a plurality of input parameters corresponding to a second operational unit that initiates a second deployment engine grouping, wherein the second grouping immediately follows the first grouping with respect to the ordering;

inserting, based upon the first and second mapping, by a processor, between the first operational unit and the second operational unit, a transitional operational unit for transitioning between a first deployment engine, corresponding to the first deployment engine grouping, and a second deployment engine, corresponding to the second deployment engine grouping, for generating a multi-deployment engine operational workflow, wherein the transitional operational unit comprises deployment tasks for performing the second mapping;

storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for execution on a processor, the multi-deployment engine operational workflow; and

executing the multi-deployment engine operational workflow on a processor.

2. The method of claim 1, the inserting, between each adjacent deployment engine grouping comprising mapping a plurality of output parameters corresponding to a first deployment action that concludes a first operation unit to a plurality of input parameters of a second deployment action that initiates a second operation unit.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising designating a particular deployment engine of the plurality of deployment engines as a master deployment engine, wherein the master deployment engine executes the transitional operational unit.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising inserting a transitional operational unit between each pair of adjacent deployment engine groupings.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for the selecting, for each of the plurality of operational units, one of the deployment engines of the one or more deployment engines.