Offline Bundle for Disconnected Cloud Infrastructure Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Installing cloud infrastructure in disconnected environments is challenging due to the lack of prerequisite components, limited access to skills and knowledge, and difficulties in procuring necessary resources, leading to delays and business disruptions.
Innovation Solution
A processing device assesses the disconnected environment, generates an offline bundle with an assessment playbook to identify missing components, and creates an automation playbook to install them, using container images or software package managers to ensure successful deployment of cloud infrastructure without relying on third-party tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cloud infrastructure is installed in disconnected environments using traditional methods, then the deployment can rely on internet connectivity for downloading prerequisite components, but the deployment fails or is delayed due to lack of internet access and unavailable prerequisite components
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by downloading and caching all necessary prerequisite components, container images, and installation artifacts into an offline bundle before disconnection. This allows the disconnected environment to have all necessary resources pre-prepared, eliminating the need for internet access during deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an offline bundle as an intermediary that carries all necessary installation resources between the connected environment (where resources are downloaded) and the disconnected environment (where deployment occurs). This intermediary transfers the necessary components without requiring active network connectivity during the deployment process.
2Ease of manufacture
If manual assessment and installation of prerequisite components is performed in disconnected environments, then third-party tools and internet access can be used, but security restrictions and lack of access to external systems prevent successful installation
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts all necessary installation capabilities, prerequisite components, and installation scripts from external third-party systems and packages them into a self-contained offline bundle. This extraction removes the dependency on external systems that are blocked by security restrictions, allowing installation to proceed using only locally available resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The offline bundle contains all necessary installation resources and automation playbooks, enabling the disconnected environment to perform self-service installation without requiring external tools, internet access, or third-party system interactions. The system installs its own prerequisites using its own bundled resources.
3Reliability
If cloud infrastructure deployment waits for prerequisite components to be available in disconnected environments, then security and connectivity requirements are maintained, but deployment time increases significantly causing business disruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs all necessary resource preparation, component downloading, and bundle creation in advance while connected to the internet. This preliminary action ensures that when deployment begins in the disconnected environment, all resources are immediately available, eliminating delays while maintaining security compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple separate resources (prerequisite components, container images, installation scripts, and configuration files) into a single integrated offline bundle. This consolidation allows all necessary elements to be transferred and deployed together, reducing the overall deployment time while maintaining complete security compliance.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods analyze for installing dependencies required for the installation of prerequisite components of cloud infrastructure to be installed in a disconnected environment are presented herein. An automation playbook generated after an assessment of a disconnected environment may be analyzed to determine a set of dependencies required by the automation playbook (e.g., packages and files required by each installation playbook called by the automation playbook). Each of the dependencies may be brought into the disconnected environment and installed as operating system packaging units, or deployed as containerized services. After all of the dependencies have been installed, a processing device may generate an installation report indicating whether the installation of each prerequisite component was successful or not. Upon determining that each of the prerequisite components was successfully installed, the processing device may install the cloud infrastructure on the disconnected environment.