Plugin-Based Software Execution Environment Manager
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies are unable to effectively manage a potentially varied and changing set of software execution environments, as they are often limited to pre-existing types and have rigid components that complicate state and health monitoring, making them non-extensible and centralized.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an environment manager and execution manager entrypoint that use plugins to manage execution environments, allowing for the determination of state and health, and configuration updates based on recommendations from a management platform, enabling flexible and decentralized management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing technology is used to manage execution environments, then management is limited to pre-existing types with rigid components, but this makes the system non-extensible and centralized
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments execution environment management into independent plugin components that can be individually developed, deployed, and managed. Each plugin handles a specific execution environment type, allowing the system to scale and adapt without increasing overall architectural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal management platform that can handle multiple types of execution environments through a common interface. The platform works with various plugins that each specialize in different environment types (containers, virtual machines, serverless), enabling one system to manage diverse environments uniformly.
2Ease of operation
If centralized management is used, then control is consolidated, but this reduces flexibility and scalability of the system
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides centralized management functionality into distributed plugin modules that operate semi-independently. Each plugin maintains local intelligence for its specific execution environment type while reporting to the central platform, achieving both centralized oversight and distributed flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The management platform acts as an intermediary between the central control system and diverse execution environments. It translates between different environment-specific protocols and the unified management interface, enabling flexible adaptation without sacrificing centralized coordination.
3Stability of the object's composition
If rigid components are used in execution environment management, then system structure is stable, but this complicates state and health monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms where each plugin continuously monitors the state and health of its managed execution environments and reports back to the management platform. This enables real-time detection and measurement while maintaining structural stability through standardized reporting interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
Each execution environment and its associated plugin perform self-diagnosis and self-reporting of their state and health. This eliminates the need for complex external monitoring of rigid components, as each component autonomously provides its own status information in a standardized format.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for managing a software execution environment are provided. For example, a method comprises: determining an execution environment state corresponding to an execution environment; providing, to a management platform, an indication of the determined execution environment state; receiving, from the management platform, a recommendation for the execution environment that is based on the execution environment state; and configuring the execution environment according to the received recommendation.