Process Deployment Controller Image Generation Across Architectures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing deployment technologies face challenges in deploying applications across multiple architectures when the infrastructure's component description is initially unavailable to the process deployment controller, leading to errors and inability to create necessary images for executing applications.
Innovation Solution
A process deployment controller generates a partial image by executing source code from a template repository and uses a component registry to retrieve the missing infrastructure component description, creating an updated image that includes this information, enabling the execution of applications on diverse infrastructures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the process deployment controller creates an image without accessing the infrastructure component description, then the deployment process can start, but the image lacks necessary infrastructure information leading to deployment failures
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by creating a partial image first with available information, then subsequently retrieving and integrating the missing infrastructure component description from a registry. This staged approach enables the deployment controller to proceed with image creation even when complete infrastructure information is initially unavailable.
Solution Approach 2:
A component registry is introduced as an intermediary between the process deployment controller and the infrastructure component description. This intermediary stores and provides the necessary infrastructure information, enabling the controller to obtain complete image data without direct access to the infrastructure itself.
2Reliability
If the process deployment controller waits for the infrastructure component description to be available, then the image can be complete, but the deployment time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates the partial image immediately with available information rather than waiting for complete infrastructure descriptions. This preliminary image creation eliminates deployment delays while ensuring image completeness is achieved subsequently through registry retrieval of missing components.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the process deployment controller operates without infrastructure component description access, then the system is more flexible, but the deployment accuracy decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The component registry serves as an intermediary that provides accurate infrastructure component descriptions to the process deployment controller. This enables the system to maintain high deployment accuracy across diverse infrastructures while preserving flexibility, as the controller can operate independently of direct infrastructure access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system achieves universality by using a standardized component registry interface that works across multiple infrastructure types. The process deployment controller can deploy to various architectures without needing direct access to each infrastructure's specific component descriptions, maintaining both flexibility and accuracy.
Data Source
AI summary
A process deployment controller creates an updated image for an intermediary engine in order to execute one or more applications on a host infrastructure. The process deployment controller generates a partial image by executing source code from a template repository. The partial image provides a structure used to create an intermediary engine used with a container, which includes an application, as well as binaries and libraries required to execute the application in an infrastructure via the intermediary engine. The process deployment controller transmits an identifier of the infrastructure to a component registry; receives a component description of the infrastructure from the component registry; and uses the component description to create an updated image of the partial image. The process deployment controller, upon receiving a request for the application to run on the infrastructure, utilizes the updated image and intermediary engine to execute the application on the infrastructure.