Intent Valet Platform for Cloud Request Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud systems face challenges in efficiently processing operation requests for virtual computing instances (VCIs) across different private and public cloud environments, leading to potential conflicts and errors if not properly managed.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an intent valet platform that processes operation requests by creating an intent, queuing it, retrieving it for processing, delegating the operation to a service for execution, and marking the intent as terminal upon completion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If operation requests are processed directly without orchestration, then processing speed is fast, but conflicts and errors occur between simultaneous operations on the same cloud objects
Solution Approach 1:
An intent valet platform is introduced as an intermediary between operation requests and cloud services. The platform receives operation requests, creates intents representing these requests, queues them to ensure sequential processing, and coordinates execution to prevent conflicts. This mediator layer adds complexity but eliminates race conditions and ensures reliable processing of simultaneous operations on the same cloud objects.
Solution Approach 2:
Operation requests are transformed into intents and queued before actual execution. This preliminary action of creating intent objects and establishing a processing queue ensures that operations are serialized and coordinated before they reach the cloud services, preventing conflicts while maintaining a structured approach to handling multiple requests.
2Productivity
If multiple operation requests are processed simultaneously, then productivity is high, but errors occur due to uncoordinated access to the same cloud objects
Solution Approach 1:
The intent valet platform serves as a mediator that receives multiple operation requests simultaneously, standardizes them into intent objects, and manages their execution. This allows the system to maintain high input throughput while ensuring controlled, conflict-free execution through the intermediary layer.
Solution Approach 2:
Operation requests are segmented into discrete intent objects that can be independently managed, tracked, and executed. Each intent represents a single operation request and is processed through the queue, allowing the system to handle multiple requests in parallel at the intake stage while ensuring sequential, conflict-free execution.
3Reliability
If an intent queue is implemented to coordinate operations, then conflict-free processing is achieved, but processing time increases due to queuing
Solution Approach 1:
The intent valet platform maintains a continuous processing pipeline where intents are created, queued, and executed without interruption. The queue operates continuously, accepting new requests while processing existing ones, minimizing idle time and ensuring that the coordination mechanism does not create significant delays in the overall processing flow.
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AI summary
System and computer-implemented method for processing operation requests in a computing environment uses an intent for an operation request received at a service instance that is submitted to an intent valet platform to process the operation request. The intent is queued in an intent table of intents and then retrieved for processing. The requested operation for the retrieved intent is delegated to the service for execution from the intent valet platform. When a completion signal from the service is received at the intent valet platform, the intent is marked as being in a terminal state.