Cloud Control Interface for Multi-Provider Application Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud application deployment across multiple providers is hindered by lack of unified APIs, varying security models, persistent storage differences, and increased complexity, leading to manual and costly portability issues and human errors.
Innovation Solution
A control interface that interacts with cloud providers using cloud drivers to abstract provider-specificities, allowing seamless deployment and monitoring across multiple cloud providers by forming a mesh interface and utilizing a cloud provider database for descriptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud providers use their own custom APIs and deployment methods, then each provider can optimize for their specific infrastructure, but developers face increased complexity and difficulty in deploying applications across multiple cloud providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud provider database and control interface as an intermediary layer between the deployment system and individual cloud providers. This intermediary abstracts the diversity of cloud provider APIs behind a unified interface, allowing developers to deploy applications across multiple providers without directly dealing with each provider's specific complexities. The control interface translates unified deployment commands into provider-specific operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal deployment system that can operate across multiple cloud providers through a common control interface. The cloud provider database stores descriptions of various providers, and the system uses this information to automatically select appropriate deployment strategies. This universal interface handles multiple functions including deployment, monitoring, and coordination across different cloud environments.
2Reliability
If developers manually deploy applications across different cloud providers, then they can handle provider-specific details, but this leads to increased human errors and costly portability issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements an automated deployment system where the control interface and cloud provider database work together to self-manage the deployment process. The system automatically retrieves cloud provider descriptions from the database, selects appropriate deployment configurations, and executes deployments without requiring manual intervention for each cloud provider. This automation eliminates human errors associated with manual deployment while maintaining ease of operation through a unified interface.
3Reliability
If cloud providers implement their own security models and storage facilities, then each provider can optimize for their specific requirements, but this creates portability issues and makes it difficult to move applications between providers
Solution Approach 1:
The control interface acts as an intermediary that abstracts cloud provider-specific security models and storage facilities behind a unified interface. The cloud provider database stores descriptions of each provider's capabilities, allowing the system to automatically adapt to different security and storage requirements while maintaining application portability. Applications interact with the unified interface rather than provider-specific implementations.
4Reliability
If the system monitors events and status of deployed components across multiple cloud providers, then it can ensure attribute compliance and reduce errors, but this increases the complexity of the control interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the event monitoring and status checking functions into the existing control interface structure. Rather than creating separate monitoring systems for each cloud provider, the control interface integrates these functions and uses the cloud provider database to coordinate monitoring across all providers. This unified approach ensures attribute compliance while managing complexity through consolidation.
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AI summary
A control interface for deployment of an application, the control interface running on a specific cloud provider and connected to a plurality of other control interfaces running on a plurality of cloud providers, wherein the control interface is connected to a cloud provider database storing a description of each cloud provider. The control interface includes a cloud driver specific to the cloud provider on which the control interface is running, the cloud driver allowing the control interface to instruct the cloud provider to deploy components of the application. The control interface includes means to receive an attribute file describing the application to deploy; means to select for each component of the application, based on the descriptions provided by the cloud provider database and the attribute file, a cloud provider suitable for the deployment; for each selected cloud provider, means to send to the corresponding control interface the component to deploy.