IaC Cloud Infrastructure Management Service
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Solution Overview
Problem
The management and administration of complex distributed computing systems have become increasingly inefficient due to the complexity of scaling and maintaining infrastructure across multiple cloud-computing facilities, which requires handling various management interfaces and authentication credentials, leading to difficulties in deploying and configuring cloud-based infrastructure.
Innovation Solution
An Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) cloud-infrastructure-management service is introduced, featuring a universal management interface, task manager, event-processing component, and Idem-service workers, allowing for scalable management of cloud-based infrastructure such as virtual networks, load balancers, and connection topologies, with features like command prioritization and preemption, and using GraphQL APIs for unified command execution across different cloud facilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional approaches are used to manage complex distributed computing systems across multiple cloud facilities, then infrastructure deployment and configuration can be performed, but management efficiency deteriorates and administrative overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal management interface that consolidates multiple cloud facility-specific management interfaces into a single unified system. This interface can manage diverse cloud infrastructure resources (virtual machines, networks, storage) across different cloud providers through a common protocol, eliminating the need to separately learn and manage multiple interfaces, thereby improving management efficiency while handling system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the user and multiple cloud facility management interfaces. This intermediary translates high-level infrastructure-as-code specifications into facility-specific commands, managing authentication credentials and resource provisioning automatically. This mediator absorbs the complexity of interacting with multiple cloud systems, allowing users to manage infrastructure efficiently without directly dealing with the underlying complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If infrastructure is deployed across multiple cloud facilities using traditional methods, then resource distribution is achieved, but deployment time and configuration complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs preliminary action by pre-defining infrastructure configurations in infrastructure-as-code specifications before actual deployment. The system validates, compiles, and prepares deployment plans in advance, transforming high-level infrastructure definitions into executable deployment scripts beforehand. This preliminary processing reduces deployment time when actually provisioning resources across multiple cloud facilities, as the complex translation and configuration work is already completed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the infrastructure deployment process into distinct, manageable components: infrastructure definition, validation, compilation, and execution phases. Each cloud resource type (compute, network, storage) is defined separately in modular infrastructure-as-code specifications. This segmentation allows parallel processing of different resource types and facilitates incremental deployment across multiple cloud facilities, reducing overall deployment time while maintaining scalability.
3Ease of operation
If manual management of authentication credentials and management interfaces is used, then access to cloud facilities is obtained, but administrative overhead and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the system to automatically manage authentication credentials and security certificates without manual intervention. The infrastructure-as-code specifications include embedded authentication information that the system automatically processes, validates, and uses to access cloud facilities. This self-service approach eliminates the need for administrators to manually configure credentials for each cloud provider, significantly improving ease of operation while the system handles the underlying complexity of credential management.
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AI summary
The current document is directed to an infrastructure-as-code (“IaC”) cloud-infrastructure-management service that allows users and upstream management systems to define and deploy infrastructure, such as virtual networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection topologies, within cloud-computing systems. The IaC cloud-infrastructure-management service includes a service frontend, a task manager, an event-processing component, and multiple Idem-service workers. The task manager manages execution of commands and requests received from the service frontend, using multiple queues, provides for prioritization of command-and-request execution by the multiple Idem-service workers, and provides for preemption of long-running executing commands and requests. The IaC cloud-infrastructure-management service can be scaled to efficiently handle dynamic workloads.