Deployment Orchestrator Automates Task Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The configuration of computing devices in distributed systems for providing services is a manual, error-prone process that lacks efficient validation of task completion, leading to potential miscommunication and inefficiencies in deploying solution architectures.

Innovation Solution

A deployment orchestrator system that uses persistent storage and a deployment manager to generate graphical user interfaces based on deployment plans, updates task status indicators, performs automated validation tasks, and verifies task completion, preventing entities from leaving the deployment area until tasks are fully completed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual configuration process is used for computing devices, then flexibility in deployment is maintained, but error rate increases and validation of task completion becomes inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask completion validation accuracyVSAvoiddeployment efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-validation of task completion through deployment orchestrator that automatically checks and validates task completion status without requiring manual verification, thereby improving both reliability and productivity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements automated feedback mechanisms where the deployment orchestrator receives task completion indicators, validates them against deployment plans, and provides real-time feedback through GUI updates, ensuring accurate validation while maintaining deployment efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If automated validation tasks are implemented, then task completion accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask completion verification accuracyVSAvoiddeployment system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The deployment orchestrator serves multiple functions including task assignment, validation, GUI management, and coordination within a single system component, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high verification accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The deployment orchestrator acts as an intermediary between the deployment plan and execution entities, centralizing the validation logic and simplifying the system architecture by eliminating the need for multiple independent validation mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Speed

If entities are allowed to leave deployment area early, then deployment speed increases, but risk of incomplete task validation increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeployment speedVSAvoidtask completion assurance

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary validation checks before allowing entities to leave the deployment area, ensuring task completion is verified in advance while maintaining deployment speed through automated processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system prevents early departure by implementing preliminary checks that block entities from leaving until validation is complete, thereby maintaining reliability without significantly impacting overall deployment speed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

Data Source

PatentUS10979312B2System and method to assign, monitor, and validate solution infrastructure deployment prerequisites in a customer data center

Publication Date: 2021.04.13 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A deployment orchestrator for managing deployment of a solution architecture includes persistent storage that stores a deployment plan and a deployment manager that orchestrates display, to a user of a user device of the solution architecture, of a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the deployment plan; obtains a task completion indicator for a task specified by the deployment plan via the graphical user interface; updates, based on the task completion indicator, at least one of a task GUI element of the GUI that is associated with the task and a relationship indicator of the GUI that is associated with the task to obtain an updated GUI; after updating the GUI: performs an automated validation task associated with the task; and makes a determination, based on the automated validation task, that the task is completed; and updates the updated GUI, based on the determination, to obtain a second updated GUI.