Post-Provisioning Service Plugin Format Transformation
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud management platforms face challenges in efficiently integrating and updating new functionalities across multiple cloud resource providers, leading to delayed feature releases and bug fixes.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a post-provisioning service that transforms post-provisioning tasks into a format compatible with plugins and virtual machines, allowing these tasks to be executed within the cloud management platform without requiring a new version deployment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud management platforms integrate new functionalities across multiple cloud resource providers, then the platform's adaptability and functionality are improved, but the complexity of integration and deployment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the platform update process into two independent parts: provisioning tasks (handled by existing infrastructure) and post-provisioning tasks (handled by new plugins). This segmentation allows new functionalities to be added as separate plugins without modifying the core provisioning system, thereby reducing integration complexity while maintaining platform adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the post-provisioning service layer) that sits between the plugin system and the virtual machines. This intermediary transforms high-level post-provisioning tasks into executable operations, allowing complex functionalities to be added without directly complicating the core platform architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If new functionalities are integrated across multiple cloud resource providers, then platform versatility is improved, but the time required for feature releases and bug fixes increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary action by allowing post-provisioning plugins to be developed, tested, and prepared independently of the main provisioning system. Plugins can be created in advance and then rapidly deployed to multiple cloud providers simultaneously, reducing the overall time from feature conception to deployment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements partial action by allowing selective deployment of individual post-provisioning plugins to specific cloud providers or environments. This enables incremental rollout of new functionalities, where only necessary features are activated in each environment, reducing the total time required for comprehensive platform updates.
3Ease of operation
If post-provisioning tasks are executed across multiple cloud environments, then the platform's operational flexibility is improved, but the complexity of task management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by designing a standardized post-provisioning task interface that can operate across multiple cloud environments through a common plugin architecture. A single plugin can be deployed to manage post-provisioning tasks across different cloud providers, reducing task management complexity while maintaining operational flexibility across diverse environments.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatus to implement post-provisioning tasks are disclosed. An example apparatus comprising memory, instructions, and programmable circuitry to be programmed by the instructions to obtain metadata associated with a post-provisioning task, the post-provisioning task to modify a plugin, the plugin to provide a capability to a cloud resource of a computing platform provider, the metadata represented in accordance with a first file format, transform the metadata from the first file format to a second file format, the second file format compatible with the plugin, and register the post-provisioning task in a deployment environment provided by the computing platform provider.