Unified Deployment Platform for Virtual Infrastructure and Containers
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Solution Overview
Problem
The separate deployment of virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads using different platforms increases troubleshooting time and makes it difficult to track updates across different platforms, leading to inefficiencies in management and version control.
Innovation Solution
A unified deployment platform that receives definitions for both virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads, allowing for simultaneous deployment through a single platform, which automates the deployment process and provides a unified configuration template for managing both components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate platforms are used to deploy virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads, then specialized deployment capabilities are provided for each component, but troubleshooting time increases and update tracking becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate infrastructure deployment platform and workload deployment platform into a single unified deployment platform. This unified platform receives deployment definitions for both virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads, then coordinates their deployment through integrated infrastructure managers and container orchestrators. This merging eliminates the need to switch between platforms for troubleshooting and updates, directly reducing troubleshooting time while maintaining specialized deployment capabilities for each component type.
2Ease of manufacture
If separate platforms are used to deploy virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads, then specialized management is provided for each component, but difficulty in tracking updates across platforms increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified deployment platform provides universal deployment capabilities that can handle both virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads through a single interface. The platform maintains separate specialized managers (infrastructure managers for infrastructure, container orchestrators for workloads) but unifies the deployment definition format and coordination layer. This allows update tracking to be centralized in one place while preserving specialized management functions, eliminating the information loss associated with tracking updates across multiple separate platforms.
3Productivity
If a unified deployment platform is used to deploy both virtual infrastructure and containerized workloads, then troubleshooting time is reduced and update tracking is simplified, but platform complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified deployment platform is segmented into distinct functional modules: an infrastructure manager component for virtual infrastructure deployment, a container orchestrator component for workload deployment, and a coordination layer that integrates them. Each segment maintains its specialized functionality while the coordination layer provides unified interface and workflow management. This segmentation reduces platform complexity by organizing functions into manageable, independent modules that can be developed and maintained separately while still providing unified deployment capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for unified virtual infrastructure and containerized workload deployment via a deployment platform include receiving, at the deployment platform, a definition of the virtual infrastructure and the containerized workload, sending, by the deployment platform, first information comprising the definition of the virtual infrastructure to an infrastructure manager configured to deploy the virtual infrastructure including a container orchestrator, and sending, by the deployment platform, second information comprising the definition of the containerized workload to the container orchestrator configured to deploy the containerized workload on the deployed virtual infrastructure.