Cloud Asset Compliance Verification via Probing Messages
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Solution Overview
Problem
In hybrid cloud environments, developers face challenges in verifying and authenticating cloud environments for application deployment due to differing deployment requirements, structures, and permissions across public and private clouds, making the process time-consuming and error-prone.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives compliance requirements and generates probing messages to determine the availability of cloud assets, identifying the cloud environment as compliant or non-compliant based on minimum deployment requirements, and deploys the target application only when the environment is compliant.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If developers manually verify cloud environment compliance across multiple clouds and layers, then deployment accuracy can be ensured, but the process becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-verification by automatically probing cloud assets and checking compliance requirements without human intervention. The compliance verification system autonomously generates probing messages, receives responses, and determines compliance status, eliminating the need for developers to manually verify each cloud asset while maintaining high accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs compliance verification before application deployment by pre-checking all cloud assets against required compliance requirements. This preliminary verification ensures that only compliant cloud environments are selected for deployment, preventing future compliance issues while reducing deployment time through automated pre-validation.
2Reliability
If developers learn and verify requirements at each cloud management layer, then deployment compliance is ensured, but the process becomes error-prone and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The compliance verification system serves multiple cloud environments (public and private clouds) and multiple cloud management layers through a single unified platform. It handles diverse compliance requirements across different cloud providers and layers, reducing complexity by providing a universal verification mechanism rather than separate processes for each cloud layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary between developers and complex cloud environments by abstracting the verification process. It receives compliance requirements from developers, automatically interacts with multiple cloud assets and layers, and returns a simplified compliance determination, shielding developers from the complexity of multi-layer cloud verification.
3Reliability
If comprehensive probing of cloud assets is performed, then deployment readiness is ensured, but system resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs probing actions selectively based on compliance requirements rather than exhaustively checking all possible cloud assets. It generates probing messages only for assets relevant to the specific compliance requirements being verified, reducing unnecessary resource consumption while ensuring deployment readiness for the required assets.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for production readiness verification and monitoring are disclosed. A set of compliance requirements including one or more required-asset identifiers and a set of minimum deployment requirements for each required-asset identifier is received. Each of the one or more required-asset identifiers are associated with a cloud asset required for deployment of a target application. One or more probing messages are generated to determine an availability of each cloud asset associated with the one or more required-asset identifiers, at least one probing response is received from at least one cloud, and the cloud environment is identified as one of compliant or non-compliant for application deployment. The cloud environment is identified as compliant when each cloud asset meets each of minimum deployment requirements and non-compliant when a cloud asset fails to meet one of the minimum deployment requirements. The target application is deployed when the cloud environment is compliant.