Virtual Bootstrap Environment for Overlay Service Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud service providers face challenges in scaling cloud services efficiently due to dedicated computing resources for service enclaves, which are difficult to expand and result in underutilized resources, while conventional data centers require significant physical footprints and complex resource management.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a scalable footprint data center architecture that places core CSP services in an overlay network, utilizing a virtual bootstrap environment (ViBE) for provisioning and deployment, allowing flexible resource allocation and expansion without dedicated hardware for service enclaves, and using hyperconverged server racks with SmartNICs for efficient resource management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If dedicated hardware is allocated for service enclave, then service reliability is improved, but device complexity and resource utilization worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges service enclave functionality into the overlay network by implementing service proxies that run on customer infrastructure. This combines service provisioning and customer workloads into a unified virtualized environment, eliminating the need for separate dedicated hardware while maintaining service reliability through virtualization layers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/dedicated hardware system with a software-defined virtualized system. Service enclaves are no longer implemented through physical dedicated hardware but through virtual machine instances running on shared infrastructure, substituting physical constraints with software flexibility.
2Reliability
If dedicated hardware is allocated for service enclave, then service reliability is improved, but loss of substance (resource utilization) worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by enabling service proxies to run on shared customer infrastructure rather than dedicated hardware. The same physical resources serve both customer workloads and service enclave functions, maximizing resource utilization while maintaining service reliability through virtualization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of service enclave implementation from dedicated physical hardware to virtualized software instances. This parameter change enables dynamic resource allocation and sharing, transforming the resource utilization model from fixed dedicated resources to flexible shared resources.
3Ease of manufacture
If data center footprint is reduced, then ease of manufacture and deployment is improved, but service capacity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic scalability where service capacity can be dynamically adjusted based on demand. The overlay network architecture allows service enclaves to be provisioned, scaled, or terminated without physical reconfiguration, enabling the data center to adapt its capacity while maintaining a reduced physical footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves service capacity from a physical dimension to a virtual dimension. Instead of expanding physical footprint to increase capacity, the system uses virtualization layers to multiply service capacity within the same physical infrastructure, adding capacity in the virtual space rather than physical space.
4Quantity of substance
If service enclave is expanded, then service capacity is improved, but device complexity and availability worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses virtual machine instances as copies of service enclave functions that can be rapidly deployed and scaled. Instead of adding physical hardware, the system creates virtual copies of services that can be instantiated on demand, increasing service capacity without increasing physical device complexity.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for building a scalable footprint data center using a virtual bootstrap environment. A computing system can implement a virtual bootstrap environment in a host region data center. The computing system can deploy a first service in the virtual bootstrap environment. The first service can have a dependency on a second service. The computing system can then deploy an instance of the second service in the virtual bootstrap environment. The instance of the second service can be configured to receive service traffic from the first service after the instance of the second service is deployed in the virtual bootstrap environment. The first service can be configured to send the service traffic to a corresponding instance of the second service in the host region prior to the instance of the second service being deployed in the virtual bootstrap environment.