Release Bundle Verification for Reliable Software Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing software deployment methods are inefficient, resource-intensive, and insecure, particularly for service-oriented architectures requiring multiple updates across different locations, due to bandwidth constraints, network connectivity issues, and the need for secure deployment.
Innovation Solution
A system for generating a release bundle that includes checksums, metadata, and a signature, which is sent to node devices for verification and storage, ensuring secure, efficient, and consistent software distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If software is deployed via network to multiple locations, then deployment efficiency is improved, but network bandwidth constraints and connectivity issues worsen deployment reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by generating a release bundle that includes a manifest file with file lists, checksums, and metadata before actual deployment. This pre-packaging allows the deployment system to verify file integrity and completeness in advance, ensuring reliable deployment across multiple locations without being constrained by network issues during the actual deployment process.
Solution Approach 2:
The manifest file acts as an intermediary between the software files and the deployment system. It contains checksums and metadata that mediate the verification process, allowing the system to confirm file integrity without retransmitting the actual software files, thus resolving the contradiction between deployment efficiency and reliability.
2Reliability
If software deployment is performed manually with physical connection, then deployment security is improved, but deployment time and resource intensity worsen productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying by creating a digital manifest file that replicates the essential information about software files (checksums, metadata, file lists). This copy enables automated verification and tracking of software deployments across multiple locations, maintaining security through cryptographic verification while eliminating the need for manual physical deployment, thus resolving the contradiction between security and productivity.
3Speed
If software files are transferred without verification, then deployment speed is improved, but file integrity and security worsen reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary verification by including pre-calculated checksums and metadata in the release bundle manifest before deployment begins. This allows the deployment system to quickly verify file integrity during transfer without slowing down the deployment process, as the verification data is already prepared and available for immediate comparison.
Solution Approach 2:
The manifest file provides feedback mechanisms through checksums and metadata that allow the deployment system to verify file integrity in real-time during deployment. This feedback enables immediate detection of corrupted or tampered files without halting the entire deployment process, thus maintaining both speed and reliability.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for distributing a software release. To illustrate, based on one or more files for distribution as a software release, a release bundle is generated that includes release bundle information, such as, for each file of the one or more files, a checksum, meta data, or both. One or more other aspects of the present disclosure further provide sending the release bundle to a node device. After receiving the release bundle at the node device, the node device receives and stores at least one file at a transaction directory. After verification that each of the one or more files is present/available at the node device, the one or more files may be provided to a memory of a node device and meta data included in the release bundle information may be applied to the one or more files transferred to the memory.