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 customers use multiple cloud service providers to deploy workloads, then service availability and flexibility are improved, but management complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud management platform provides a universal interface that can manage multiple cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) through a single system. The platform translates provider-specific infrastructure definitions into a unified model, allowing customers to deploy and manage workloads across different cloud providers without needing separate management tools for each provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud management platform acts as an intermediary layer between the customer's workload deployment requests and the various cloud service providers' infrastructure. It receives infrastructure definitions, translates them into provider-specific configurations, executes deployments, and then manages the resources through a unified interface, thereby simplifying multi-cloud management.
2Extent of automation
If cloud infrastructure tools are integrated into the primary cloud management platform, then automation capability is improved, but platform complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud management platform segments the automation functionality into distinct modules: a provider-agnostic infrastructure definition layer, a translation layer that converts definitions into provider-specific configurations, and execution layers that interact with individual cloud providers. This segmentation allows automation capabilities to be added without creating a monolithic complex system.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform changes the parameter representation of infrastructure resources by using an abstract, provider-agnostic model that describes resources in terms of their essential characteristics rather than provider-specific parameters. This allows the same infrastructure definition to be deployed across multiple providers with different parameter sets, achieving automation without proportionally increasing platform complexity.
3Productivity
If configuration instructions are transmitted to container orchestration platform for execution, then deployment speed is improved, but system integration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cloud management platform serves as an intermediary that prepares and transmits configuration instructions to container orchestration platforms. It translates high-level infrastructure definitions into the specific configuration formats required by different container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.), enabling fast automated deployments while managing integration complexity centrally within the management platform.
Data Source
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.