Deployment of cloud infrastructures using a cloud management platform
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face challenges in managing and deploying cloud infrastructures across multiple platforms due to the lack of support for cloud infrastructure tools by their primary cloud management platforms, leading to inefficiencies in creating and managing cloud workloads.
Innovation Solution
A cloud management platform integrates with a container orchestration platform to receive and execute configuration instructions for deploying cloud infrastructures, allowing for the management of both native and non-native resources, and provides a graphical interface for monitoring and managing these resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud management platforms integrate cloud infrastructure tools, then the ability to manage cloud infrastructures across multiple platforms is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud management platform as an intermediary layer between users and multiple cloud service providers. This platform integrates cloud infrastructure tools and provides a unified interface for managing cloud infrastructures across different providers, thereby improving adaptability while managing complexity through abstraction.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud management platform is designed with multi-functionality to support multiple cloud service providers and various cloud infrastructure tools simultaneously. It provides universal capabilities for deploying, managing, and monitoring cloud infrastructures across different platforms, enhancing versatility without requiring separate systems for each provider.
2Productivity
If cloud infrastructure tools are integrated into the cloud management platform, then operational efficiency is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges cloud infrastructure tools directly into the cloud management platform, combining previously separate functions into a unified system. This integration automates cloud infrastructure deployment and management tasks, improving operational efficiency while consolidating complexity within a single platform rather than requiring multiple separate tools.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated cloud infrastructure tools enable automated self-service capabilities for deploying and managing cloud infrastructures. The system can automatically provision resources, configure settings, and manage lifecycles without manual intervention, thereby improving productivity while the automation handles the complexity internally.
3Ease of operation
If the cloud management platform supports cloud infrastructure tools, then ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud management platform serves as an intermediary that simplifies user interaction with complex cloud infrastructure tools. It provides a user-friendly interface and abstracts away the underlying complexity of managing multiple cloud service providers, making cloud infrastructure management easier to operate while the platform internally manages the complexity through its integration architecture.
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AI summary
This disclosure relates generally to creating and managing cloud infrastructure, and more specifically, integrating one or more cloud infrastructure tools for building cloud infrastructures. An example method includes, receiving a request to deploy a cloud infrastructure on a cloud service provider based on a cloud template of the cloud management platform; transmitting configuration instructions to a container orchestration platform for execution on one or more containers running on the container orchestration platform, the configuration instructions directing the one or more containers to deploy the cloud infrastructure; receiving a deployment state of the cloud infrastructure on the cloud service provider from the container orchestration platform following execution of the configuration instructions; and reporting a status of the cloud infrastructure based on the deployment state.