Server Environment Configuration Package with Dependency Workflows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Setting up a new working environment on a server system hosting multiple environments with separate components is difficult and time-consuming, requiring knowledge of component dependencies and deployment order.
Innovation Solution
A package is generated that includes environmental metadata, a data module, and workflows with tasks to configure a working environment on a server instance, using a Domain Specific Language (DSL) to specify components and their dependencies, allowing for automated deployment and configuration of user interface, data access, and API components, with pre-deployment checks, deployment, post-deployment validation, and health checks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual configuration of working environments is performed, then components can be deployed with proper dependencies and ordering, but the process becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining working environment templates with all necessary component dependencies and deployment orders configured in advance. When a user needs a working environment, they simply select from pre-configured templates rather than manually configuring each component, thus achieving rapid deployment while maintaining correctness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the template system) between the user and the complex component deployment process. The template acts as a mediator that encapsulates the complexity of dependency management and deployment ordering, allowing users to obtain working environments without needing to understand the underlying complexity.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed component dependencies are manually managed, then deployment correctness is ensured, but user knowledge requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by making component dependencies and deployment configurations self-documented within the template system. The templates automatically manage their own dependency relationships and deployment sequences, eliminating the need for users to manually track or understand complex inter-component dependencies.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating reusable template definitions that can be instantiated multiple times. Each template captures the complete configuration including all component dependencies and deployment orders, which can be copied and applied to create working environments without requiring users to re-specify the complex relationships each time.
3Extent of automation
If working environment templates are created with complete component definitions, then deployment automation is achieved, but package size and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the working environment template into distinct, organized components such as component definitions, dependency specifications, deployment orders, and configuration parameters. This segmented structure makes the template manageable and allows for selective instantiation of different components based on specific needs.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for a package for configuring a working environment on a server instance. A package including environmental metadata, a data module, and deployment workflows comprising tasks may be received. The package may be deployed on a server instance of a cloud computing server system to configure a working environment by configuring the working environment with the environmental metadata based on the tasks of the deployment workflows and deploying the data module to add data to a database of the server instance based on the tasks of the deployment workflows.