Multi-Cloud Deployment Policy Templates for Consistent Tool Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity and manual nature of selecting tools, technologies, and configurations in the software development lifecycle lead to inefficiencies, errors, and inconsistencies, especially in large-scale environments, due to the dynamic and evolving nature of organizational preferences, requirements, and compliance policies.

Innovation Solution

An architecture comprising a policy template designer, script generator, and technology-specific interpreters to automate the creation and enforcement of policy templates, ensuring consistent and efficient execution across SDLC stages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual selection of tools, technologies, and configurations is performed, then flexibility in choosing appropriate options is maintained, but human error and inconsistency increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsistency of tool selectionVSAvoidmanual selection process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically selecting tools, technologies, and configurations based on recorded policy templates, eliminating the need for manual selection and ensuring consistent, error-free decisions across all software lifecycle stages

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by recording user actions and preferences during initial policy template creation, then automatically applying these pre-defined templates to subsequent tool selection decisions, ensuring consistency without repeated manual intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If static documentation is used to guide tool selection, then organizational preferences and compliance policies are documented, but the documentation becomes outdated quickly and requires manual referencing

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadherence to compliance policiesVSAvoidtime for manual documentation review

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from static documentation to dynamic policy templates that automatically adapt to changing organizational preferences and compliance policies, ensuring the guidance remains current without manual updates and eliminating time spent reviewing outdated documentation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that automatically update policy templates based on changing requirements and compliance policies, ensuring the documentation remains current and relevant without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive documentation of organizational preferences and compliance policies is created, then guidance is provided, but the complexity of managing and updating this documentation increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecoverage of organizational requirementsVSAvoiddocumentation management system

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates universal policy templates that can be applied across multiple software lifecycle stages and tool selection scenarios, consolidating comprehensive organizational requirements into reusable templates that reduce management complexity while maintaining broad coverage

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Productivity

If manual processes are used for tool and technology selection, then human judgment can be applied, but the process becomes cumbersome and error-prone in large-scale environments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of selection processVSAvoidaccuracy of tool selection

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical manual selection process with an automated computational system that uses recorded policy templates to make tool selection decisions, dramatically improving both productivity and reliability by eliminating human error while maintaining accurate judgment through pre-recorded user preferences

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS20250265076A1Method and apparatus for designing and enforcing a multi-cloud deployment policy for software applications

Publication Date: 2025.08.21 CALIBO LLC

AI summary

Provided is an architecture for facilitating creation and enforcement of policy templates. The architecture includes a policy template designer, a script generator, a policy enforcement engine, and a plurality of technology-specific interpreters. The policy template designer records, for creating a policy template, selection of a set of technologies. The script generator generates a policy template script indicative the set of technologies. The policy enforcement engine generates a set of provisioning scripts indicative of a set of resources to be provisioned by the set of technologies. The policy enforcement engine communicates the set of provisioning scripts to a set of technology-specific interpreters of the plurality of technology-specific interpreters. The set of technology-specific interpreters communicate with the set of technologies to provision the set of resources.