Orchestration Engine Automating Hybrid Cloud Resource Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern IT infrastructure complexity, particularly in hybrid cloud environments, makes it difficult for users to orchestrate and deploy applications due to the need for multiple resources and systems across various clouds, leading to time-consuming and error-prone processes.
Innovation Solution
A system that automates the orchestration of resources and application deployment by using a product orchestration engine architecture with APIs to manage provisioning and lifecycle management, determining resource requirements, and handling dependencies across namespaces, allowing for automated end-to-end orchestration from selection to full configuration and operational readiness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual orchestration of resources and application deployment is performed across hybrid cloud environments, then users can have full control over the deployment process, but the process becomes time-consuming and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where the orchestration engine automatically discovers dependencies, provisions resources, and deploys applications across hybrid cloud environments without requiring manual user intervention for each step, thereby reducing both time and potential human errors
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining resource templates, dependency relationships, and deployment workflows in advance, allowing the orchestration engine to automatically execute these pre-configured sequences when deployment is initiated, significantly reducing deployment time
2Productivity
If automated orchestration is implemented to reduce manual effort, then deployment efficiency improves, but system complexity increases due to multiple components and namespaces
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the orchestration functionality into distinct components operating in separate namespaces - including resource provisioning components, dependency management components, and application deployment components - allowing each to specialize in specific tasks while maintaining overall system productivity through coordinated automation
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestration engine acts as an intermediary that manages complexity by automatically handling communications and coordination between different namespace components, resource providers, and deployment targets, thereby enabling high productivity without requiring users to directly manage the underlying system complexity
3Manufacturing precision
If dependency management across namespaces is automated, then resource provisioning accuracy improves, but the orchestration process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary dependency discovery and validation before resource provisioning, automatically mapping dependency relationships between applications and required resources across namespaces, which ensures accurate resource provisioning while the orchestration engine manages the complexity of dependency resolution
Solution Approach 2:
The orchestration engine implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor resource provisioning status and dependency satisfaction across namespaces, automatically adjusting and re-provisioning resources as needed to maintain accurate alignment between application requirements and deployed resources
Data Source
AI summary
A system can receive a first indication to provision and configure an asset. The system can send a second indication to a first component that manages provisioning of the asset to provision the asset, the first component operating in a first namespace. The system can, based on the first component determining that the asset depends on a computing service, receiving a third indication from the first component that is directed to a second component that manages provisioning of the computing service, the second component operating in a second namespace that is separate from the first namespace. The system can send a fourth indication to the second component to provision the computing service for the asset.