Immutable 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 excessive computing resource consumption and database destabilization due to repetitive configuration preparation and migration between environments.

Innovation Solution

An automated system generates configuration packages using user-input parameters, which are then deployed across multiple environments with reduced errors and improved stability by using immutable configuration packages that include deployment artifacts for database query execution.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual configuration preparation and migration processes are used for onboarding entities to multi-tenant platforms, then flexibility and control over configuration deployment are maintained, but the process becomes time-consuming and resource-intensive

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveonboarding speedVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Configuration packages are prepared and validated in advance in development environments before being deployed to production. The system performs preliminary configuration generation, validation, and packaging operations so that when an entity needs to be onboarded, the configuration is already ready for rapid deployment, eliminating time-consuming manual preparation steps during actual onboarding

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates template configurations that can be copied and reused across multiple entities and environments. Once a configuration is validated in one environment, it can be replicated to other entities or environments through automated copying mechanisms, significantly reducing the time and resources needed for each individual onboarding operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If repetitive configuration preparation is performed for each entity onboarding, then configuration accuracy can be maintained, but database destabilization and computing resource consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration accuracyVSAvoiddatabase stability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements validation and testing mechanisms that cushion against potential errors before configurations are deployed to production databases. Configuration packages undergo automated validation, syntax checking, and compatibility verification in non-production environments beforehand, preventing erroneous configurations from reaching production and causing database instability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

Solution Approach 2:

Validated configuration templates are copied to production environments rather than recreating configurations from scratch. This copying approach ensures that only pre-validated, error-free configurations are deployed, maintaining configuration accuracy while minimizing database destabilization risks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Reliability

If configuration packages are deployed through multiple environments in sequence, then deployment reliability is improved, but deployment time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeployment reliabilityVSAvoiddeployment time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs all necessary validation, testing, and verification actions in advance during the configuration package creation phase. By completing these preliminary actions before deployment begins, the actual deployment process through multiple environments becomes a straightforward execution sequence without repeated validation cycles, reducing overall deployment time while maintaining reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The deployment process maintains continuous useful action by seamlessly transitioning configuration packages through development, testing, and production environments without stopping for re-validation. Once a configuration package is validated in one environment, the validation results are carried forward, allowing continuous deployment progression through the environment chain without time-consuming interruptions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12511133B2Automated deployment of configurations for a multi-tenant platform up an environment chain

Publication Date: 2025.12.30 CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC

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.