Multi-site WAN Service Mesh for Hybrid Cloud Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud computing systems face challenges in seamlessly managing and integrating resources across multiple sites in a hybrid cloud environment, particularly in creating a multi-site wide area network (WAN) that allows for efficient deployment and management of applications across physically different locations.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a method that creates a multi-site WAN by establishing compute profiles, service meshes, and deploying applications across multiple sites, utilizing virtual machines and service meshes to abstract site-specific configurations and provide a unified platform for managing and executing workloads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sites are integrated in a hybrid cloud environment, then resource accessibility and scalability are improved, but system complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service mesh provides a universal platform that handles multiple functions across different sites including workload deployment, resource abstraction, and unified management. This multi-functional approach allows diverse cloud resources to be accessed through a common interface, improving adaptability while managing complexity through consolidation.
Solution Approach 2:
The service mesh acts as an intermediary layer between application workloads and underlying cloud infrastructure. This mediator abstracts the complexity of multi-site integration, providing a simplified interface for resource access while handling the intricacies of hybrid cloud management in the background.
2Productivity
If applications are deployed across multiple physical locations, then scalability and availability are improved, but deployment complexity and configuration management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the deployment process into manageable components through compute profiles and service mesh configurations. Each site can be independently configured and deployed, allowing scalable expansion while maintaining manageable complexity through modular, incremental deployment rather than monolithic system configuration.
3Ease of operation
If site-specific configurations are abstracted, then ease of management is improved, but loss of granular control over individual sites may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The service mesh enables local quality control where each site can have site-specific compute profiles and configurations tailored to local requirements, while still being managed through the unified service mesh platform. This allows granular control at the local level without sacrificing overall ease of management through centralization.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more examples provide techniques for providing a multi-site wide area network in a cloud computing system. In an example, a method of providing a multi-site wide area network (WAN) in a cloud computing system includes: creating a plurality of sites; creating a compute profile in each of the plurality of sites, each compute profile having a compute cluster of virtual machines (VMs); creating a service mesh having the compute profile of each of the plurality of sites; and deploying an application to the service mesh.