Multi-Tenant Configuration Package Deployment Across Environment Chains
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of onboarding a new entity to a multi-tenant platform is time-consuming and resource-intensive, often leading to errors and destabilization of the computing infrastructure due to repetitive configuration updates across multiple environments.
Innovation Solution
An automated system generates configuration packages using user-input parameters, which are then deployed across different environments, ensuring consistency and reducing errors through immutable configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual configuration updates are performed across multiple environments, then entity onboarding can be completed, but the process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
Configuration packages are pre-built in development environments with all necessary parameters and dependencies organized beforehand. This preliminary preparation allows for rapid deployment to multiple environments (staging, production) without manual reconfiguration, significantly reducing onboarding time while maintaining consistency across environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses configuration packages that can be copied and deployed across multiple environments. Once a configuration is validated in one environment, it can be replicated to other environments through automated deployment processes, eliminating the need to manually recreate configurations and reducing both time and resource consumption.
2Reliability
If configuration parameters are updated across multiple environments, then entity integration can be achieved, but errors and infrastructure destabilization occur
Solution Approach 1:
The deployment system incorporates feedback mechanisms where configuration packages are tested and validated in lower environments before being promoted to higher environments. If issues are detected, the deployment process provides feedback to prevent progression to production, thereby reducing errors and infrastructure instability while maintaining configuration consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a multi-environment deployment chain (development → staging → production) that acts as a cushioning mechanism. Problems are caught and resolved in earlier environments before reaching production, preventing errors from destabilizing the infrastructure while ensuring configuration consistency across all environments.
3Productivity
If repetitive configuration updates are performed, then entity onboarding is completed, but computing resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple configuration operations into a single configuration package that can be deployed across multiple environments simultaneously. This consolidation reduces repetitive configuration updates and the associated computing resource consumption while maintaining high onboarding throughput through automated deployment processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration package design enables universal deployment across different environments (development, staging, production) with a single package. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for environment-specific configuration modifications, reducing computing resource consumption while maintaining high onboarding productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
In some implementations, a device may retrieve a configuration package corresponding to one or more configurations used to establish an entity in a platform that integrates services of a plurality of first entities with platforms of a plurality of second entities. The device may cause deployment of the configuration package to a first environment of an environment chain of the platform. The device may cause, after deployment of the configuration package to the first environment, deployment of the configuration package to a second environment of the environment chain of the platform. Numerous other aspects are described.


