Image-Based Cloud Region Build Using Prefab Resource Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building new cloud regions is a complex and time-consuming process involving significant manual coordination and is prone to errors, limiting a cloud service provider's ability to grow computing resources in a timely manner to meet increasing customer demands.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing a prefab factory to automate the region build process, where physical resources are configured and tested at a central facility, then shipped to the destination site for final installation, leveraging manager and orchestration services to manage inventory, network configuration, and software deployment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If manual coordination is used to build new cloud regions, then configuration accuracy can be maintained, but build time increases significantly and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by creating a bootstrapped region in advance at a source location before the final region is built at the destination. This pre-configured region serves as a template that automatically provisions resources and configurations, eliminating the need for manual coordination during the actual region build process. The bootstrapped region is created with all necessary infrastructure, networking, and resource configurations already in place, which then automatically replicates to the final destination region.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by replicating the bootstrapped region's configuration and resources to create the final region. Instead of manually configuring each resource at the destination, the system automatically copies the proven working configuration from the source bootstrapped region to the destination region. This ensures configuration accuracy is maintained while dramatically reducing build time, as the copying process is automated and can be performed rapidly without manual intervention.
2Speed
If physical resources are configured at the final destination data center, then network connectivity is optimized, but logistical complexity and scheduling difficulties increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by configuring physical resources at a prefab factory location before they are shipped to the final destination data center. The bootstrapped region is built in advance with all networking, computing, and storage resources configured and tested. This pre-configuration allows the resources to be optimized for their final destination while eliminating the logistical complexity of coordinating configuration activities at multiple destination sites, as everything is prepared centrally at the prefab factory.
3Productivity
If automated prefab factory is used to build regions, then productivity and build speed increase, but system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an intermediary approach by introducing a bootstrapped region as a mediating template between the automated prefab factory process and the final destination region. The bootstrapped region serves as an intermediate configuration that captures all the complex automated provisioning logic and resources in a standardized template. This intermediary template simplifies the overall system by providing a reusable, pre-validated configuration that can be rapidly replicated to multiple destinations without requiring complex coordination each time, thus managing system complexity while maintaining high productivity.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for building a region data center using image-based resource deployment. A manager service executing in a distributed computing system can deploy software resources to a first set of physical resources within a data center and generate an image set for the first set of physical resources. The image set can include a software image corresponding to each physical resource in the first set of physical resources. The manager service can also determine whether a second set of physical resources is compatible with the image set and deploy the image set to the second set of physical resources. The manager service can then configure identifiers associated with the software resources of the image set deployed to the second set of physical resources.