Hybrid Cloud Control Plane API Gateway for Unified Service Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current hybrid cloud architectures face challenges in seamlessly managing and integrating services across public, private, and on-premise data centers, leading to complexities in operational management, security, and compliance, which hinders efficient deployment and usage of hybrid cloud environments.
Innovation Solution
A hybrid cloud control plane (HCCP) is introduced, which provides a unified set of capabilities for managing workloads across different data centers, leveraging Global ID APIs for authentication and session token management, and an API gateway for secure transaction processing, enabling consistent management and integration of services across hybrid cloud ecosystems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If services are integrated across multiple public, private, and on-premise data centers in a hybrid cloud environment, then service functionality and versatility are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an API gateway as an intermediary component that sits between consumer applications and multiple service providers across hybrid cloud environments. This gateway consolidates authentication, authorization, and service routing functions, thereby maintaining service versatility while reducing the complexity of managing multiple data center connections directly.
Solution Approach 2:
The API gateway implements universal authentication and service access mechanisms that work across diverse service providers (public cloud, private cloud, on-premise). By providing a single unified interface that handles multiple service types and providers, the system achieves multi-functionality without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Reliability
If authentication and service access are managed across diverse service providers, then security and compliance are improved, but operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges authentication and authorization functions into a single centralized API gateway that handles all service providers uniformly. This consolidation maintains robust security and compliance across diverse providers while significantly simplifying operational management by eliminating the need to manage separate authentication systems for each provider.
3Ease of operation
If a unified management interface is implemented across hybrid cloud environments, then ease of operation is improved, but the scope of integration required increases complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex integration logic for managing multiple service providers out of individual applications and concentrates it in a dedicated API gateway. This extraction provides a unified management interface that simplifies operations while containing the integration complexity within a single specialized component rather than distributing it across the entire system.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a hybrid cloud control plane (HCCP) that manages hybrid cloud workloads. For example, the HCCP manages workloads across public and private cloud data centers and on-premise data centers. The HCCP can leverage a Global ID (global identifier) to create a global trace across the hybrid cloud ecosystem. Also discloses is a “hybrid cloud connected” capability. In one embodiment, a hybrid cloud connected capability comprises of a global identity, a hybrid cloud network connection, and a managed API (application programming interface) used to seamlessly perform transactions in a hybrid cloud environment.