Cloud Platform ISO Image Creation via Temporary Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud management platforms cannot create private images in a public cloud using an ISO file provided by a tenant, limiting tenant flexibility and application requirements.
Innovation Solution
The method involves providing a cloud management platform with interfaces for uploading, registering, installing, setting, and obtaining images from an ISO file, allowing tenants to create private images with customized operating systems and environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an existing local image is registered as a private image using a private image import function, then the private image creation process is simple, but a private ISO image cannot be registered and tenants cannot create private images using an ISO file
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a temporary cloud server as an intermediary component to bridge the gap between ISO file upload and private image creation. The temporary server acts as a mediator that hosts the ISO file, enables operating system installation, and facilitates the conversion of the ISO image into a registrable private image format, thereby resolving the incompatibility between ISO files and the private image import function
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically creating a temporary cloud server, uploading the ISO file to it, and installing the operating system before the tenant completes the private image creation workflow. This preliminary setup enables the subsequent registration and conversion steps to proceed smoothly, overcoming the limitation of direct ISO file registration
2Adaptability or versatility
If a temporary cloud server is created to install the operating system from the ISO file, then private image creation from ISO is enabled, but cloud server resources are occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a discard and recover strategy where the temporary cloud server is created solely for the purpose of installing the operating system from the ISO file, and then automatically deleted after the private image is successfully created. This ensures that cloud server resources are occupied only temporarily during the image creation process and are released afterward, minimizing resource consumption while enabling ISO-based private image creation
Solution Approach 2:
The temporary cloud server is designed as a disposable, short-lived resource that exists only momentarily to facilitate the image creation process. By using a temporary server that is automatically terminated after its purpose is fulfilled, the system avoids long-term resource occupation while maintaining the capability to create private images from ISO files
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AI summary
A method for creating a private image in a public cloud and a related device. The method includes: A cloud management platform on a network side provide a plurality of interfaces for a tenant, and obtain, based on the plurality of interfaces, an ISO file uploaded by the tenant and an operation input by the tenant. The cloud management platform registers the ISO file as an ISO image in the public cloud based on the input operation, where the ISO image carries the installation file of the operating system, installs the installation file of the operating system carried in the ISO image on a temporary cloud server, sets a running environment in an operating system on the temporary cloud server, obtains an image of the temporary cloud server in which the running environment is set, and records the image as a system disk image of the tenant in the public cloud.