Scoped Cloud Control Plane for Service Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for integrating new services into production cloud systems often require multiple deployments and increased operational costs, as well as potential adverse impacts on existing users, due to the need for separate testing environments and additional staff.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced where a new service is assigned a limited scope within the cloud control plane, allowing restricted access to resources, enabling seamless testing and integration without affecting production users, and transitioning to full access once testing is complete.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a sandbox environment is used to test new services separately from production, then service stability is improved, but device complexity increases due to maintaining separate testing and production deployments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the sandbox and production environments into a single cloud system by implementing scope-based access control. Instead of maintaining physically separate environments, the system allows coexistence of test and production services within the same infrastructure, with virtual isolation through scope assignments. This reduces deployment complexity while maintaining service stability through logical separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces scope-based access control as an intermediary mechanism between services and resources. The scope assignment system acts as a mediator that controls which services can access which resources, enabling safe testing in production without direct exposure. This intermediary layer provides the necessary isolation while allowing controlled integration.
2Reliability
If multiple deployments are maintained for service testing, then service stability is improved, but loss of substance increases due to increased storage requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple deployment environments into a single shared infrastructure. By using scope-based access control, the system allows test and production services to coexist in the same cloud system, sharing underlying storage resources. This eliminates the need for separate storage infrastructure for sandbox environments, reducing total storage requirements while maintaining service stability through logical isolation.
3Reliability
If multiple deployments are maintained for service testing, then service stability is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional operational staff requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges operational management into a single unified system. By implementing scope-based access control within one cloud system, the patent eliminates the need to separately manage sandbox and production environments. A single team can manage both test and production services through the same interface and control mechanisms, reducing operational complexity and staff requirements while maintaining service stability.
4Ease of operation
If a new service is given full access to production cloud system, then ease of operation is improved, but object-generated harmful factors increase due to potential adverse impacts on existing users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces scope-based access control as an intermediary mechanism. Instead of giving services direct full access or complete isolation, the scope system provides controlled access. Services can interact with production resources through scope-defined boundaries, enabling easy integration testing while preventing harmful impacts on production users through enforceable access restrictions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements local quality by assigning different scope levels to different services and resources. Each service receives appropriate access rights based on its testing needs, rather than uniform full access or complete denial. This localized access control enables targeted integration testing with specific production resources while protecting other areas from potential harm.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses method for integrating a cloud service under development with a production cloud system that includes at least one production service. A first scope is assigned for use in testing the first cloud service under development with the production cloud system, in which the first scope restricts access of the first cloud service under development to the production cloud system. A first user of the production cloud system is assigned to the first scope. A second scope is assigned to services of the production cloud system, which does not restrict access of the services of the production cloud system. Access to the first cloud service under development and to the at least one production cloud service is provided to the first user. Other users of the production cloud system are not provided access to the first cloud service under development.