Multi-substrate fault tolerant continuous delivery of datacenter builds on cloud computing platforms

Abstract

Computing systems, for example, multi-tenant systems deploy software artifacts in data centers created in a cloud platform using a cloud platform infrastructure language that is cloud platform independent. The system uses a control datacenter with a set of service groups used for configuring other datacenters, for example, for performing continuous delivery of software artifacts for other datacenters. The system uses a primary control datacenter and a secondary control datacenter. The primary control datacenter configures infrastructure of the tenant datacenter, for example, by configuring computing resources in the cloud platform for the tenant datacenter according to a declarative specification of the tenant datacenter. The secondary control datacenter efficiently takes control of the process of configuring the tenant datacenter, for example, if there is a failure of the primary control datacenter.

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BACKGROUNDField of Art[0001]This disclosure relates in general to continuous delivery of software releases in cloud computing platforms, and in particular to multi-substrate fault tolerant continuous delivery of datacenter builds on cloud computing platforms.Description of the Related Art[0002]Organizations are increasingly replying on cloud platforms (or cloud computing platforms) such as AWS (AMAZON WEB SERVICES), GOOGLE cloud platform, MICROSOFT AZURE, and so on for their infrastructure needs. Cloud platforms provide servers, storage, databases, networking, software, and so on over the internet to organizations. Conventionally, organizations maintained data centers that house hardware and software used by the organization. However, maintaining data centers can result in significant overhead in terms of maintenance, personnel, and so on. As a result, organizations are shifting their data centers to cloud platforms that provide scalability and elasticity of computing resources.[000...

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Problems solved by technology

However, maintaining data centers can result in significant overhead in terms of maintenance, personnel, and so on.

However, deploying software releases for services provided on a cloud platform using a continuous delivery platform can be complex.

A failure in the infrastructure used for performing continuous delivery of the software artifacts could limit the ability to manage all services running for all tenants if the system is a multi-tenant system.

Such a failure would interrupt installations of new features as well as any fixes due to defects or failures of existing services.

Conventional systems that do not handle such failures of infrastructure effectively may cause long interruptions of services.

Continuous delivery on a public cloud environment involves several additional considerations such as possibility of unauthorized data access, shared resources, lack of direct control on computing resources by the organization, and so on.

Conventional techniques for continuous delivery are inadequate for deploying software artifacts on public cloud environments.

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