Cloud Release Orchestration Using Portable Execution Plans
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Solution Overview
Problem
Deploying software releases on multiple cloud platforms is complex due to differences in tools and requirements, leading to high maintenance costs for multi-tenant systems, especially when managing services for numerous data centers with varying software, languages, and network policies across diverse cloud platforms.
Innovation Solution
A cloud platform infrastructure language allows for substrate-independent orchestration of software releases using declarative specifications, enabling the generation of execution plans that are portable across various cloud platforms, and includes features like stagger groups, promotion strategies, and notification mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple cloud platforms are supported with different tools and requirements, then platform compatibility is improved, but maintenance cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal orchestration layer that provides a common interface and standardized processes for deploying software releases across multiple cloud platforms. This abstraction layer enables the system to work with different cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) through unified mechanisms, eliminating the need for separate maintenance procedures for each platform and reducing overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary orchestration component that sits between the deployment system and various cloud platforms. This mediator translates standardized deployment requests into platform-specific actions, handling differences in tools and requirements internally while presenting a consistent interface to users, thereby reducing maintenance burden.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different implementations are maintained for each cloud platform, then platform-specific requirements are met, but expertise requirements and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestration layer provides unified mechanisms for release deployment, rollback, and management that work across all supported cloud platforms. Operators can perform standard deployment tasks using a single set of procedures and tools, eliminating the need to learn and maintain separate implementations for each cloud provider.
3Productivity
If software releases are deployed across numerous data centers with varying requirements, then service coverage is improved, but deployment complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the deployment process into standardized, modular stages that can be consistently applied across numerous data centers. By dividing the complex deployment task into discrete, manageable steps with uniform procedures, the system can scale to serve many data centers without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-tenant system receives a request to build a software artifact for deploying on one or more target datacenter entities of the datacenter configured on the could platform. A software artifact comprises executable instructions associated with a service configured for execution on one or more cloud platforms. The system generates a release configuration that includes reusable release components and is used as a template by the release orchestration system to orchestrate release of the software artifact. In one embodiment, the release configuration includes a variable representing a placeholder for one or more elements of the release.