Cloud Management Integrator for Automated Application Deployment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current cloud-management systems lack the ability to efficiently integrate multiple automated application-deployment facilities, leading to complexities in system management and reduced functionality for administrators and users.

Innovation Solution

An integrated cloud-management facility with an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that allows access to multiple automated application-deployment facilities, providing a unified interface and broader functionalities through a common API, simplifying the integration of different application-deployment facilities and reducing redundancy and complexity.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple automated application-deployment facilities are integrated into a cloud-management system, then functionality and capabilities are enhanced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the integration complexity by introducing an intermediary integrator component that handles communications with multiple automated application-deployment facilities independently. This integrator acts as a separate module that manages the complexity of interfacing with different facilities, allowing the core cloud-management system to remain relatively simple while still providing access to multiple deployment capabilities through a unified interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An integrator component serves as an intermediary between the cloud-management system and multiple automated application-deployment facilities. This mediator handles the complexity of different communications protocols and interfaces by providing a standardized access point, thereby enhancing functionality without directly increasing the complexity of the core system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If a unified interface is provided for multiple automated application-deployment facilities, then ease of operation is improved, but integration complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidintegration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The integrator is designed with universal functionality to handle communications with multiple different automated application-deployment facilities through a single standardized interface. This multi-functional component can adapt to various facility types and protocols, providing ease of operation for users while consolidating integration complexity within the integrator itself rather than requiring separate integration logic for each facility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The unified interface is achieved through an intermediary integrator that translates between the standardized interface and the specific protocols of different deployment facilities. This mediator handles the integration complexity internally, allowing users to operate the system easily through a consistent interface without exposing them to the underlying complexity of multiple facility integrations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Productivity

If automated application-deployment facilities are integrated into the cloud-management system, then productivity is enhanced, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveproductivityVSAvoidoperational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple automated application-deployment facilities into a single integrated cloud-management environment through the integrator. This combination allows administrators to manage multiple deployment tools from one centralized interface, enhancing productivity by eliminating the need to switch between separate systems while the integrator handles the operational complexity of coordinating between different facilities in the background.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11265202B2Integrated automated application deployment
Publication Date: 2022.03.01 VMWARE INC
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AI summary

The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.