Visual DevOps Application Automating Infrastructure Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Software developers face significant challenges in managing infrastructure resources for software product delivery, as existing tools require extensive expertise and can lead to misconfiguration, inefficiency, and increased financial burdens due to inadequate or redundant resource provisioning.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a visual DevOps application that allows software developers to design architectural flow diagrams, automatically provisioning infrastructure resources based on these designs, ensuring adequate and non-redundant resource allocation, thereby reducing the need for explicit infrastructure management and expertise.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If cloud infrastructure offerings are used to provision infrastructure resources, then the burden of managing physical hardware is reduced, but the need for specific infrastructure expertise increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that sits between the software developer and the cloud infrastructure provider. This intermediary automatically translates high-level software requirements into specific infrastructure provisioning commands, eliminating the need for developers to directly interact with complex cloud infrastructure interfaces while maintaining automated resource allocation
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing infrastructure resources to be automatically provisioned based on software requirements without human intervention. The automated provisioning system independently selects, configures, and allocates infrastructure resources, freeing developers from manual infrastructure management tasks while maintaining simplicity
2Adaptability or versatility
If infrastructure resources are manually provisioned without automation, then resource allocation can be customized, but the risk of misconfiguration and redundancy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors infrastructure resource usage and performance metrics. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts resource allocation to prevent both misconfiguration and redundancy, ensuring optimal resource levels while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to changing software requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring and validating infrastructure resource allocations before deployment. This includes automatic configuration checks, dependency resolution, and validation of resource specifications, ensuring that resources are correctly configured from the outset and reducing the risk of misconfiguration while maintaining allocation flexibility
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AI summary
A visual devops application recognizes selection of a set of architectural resources, where at least one of the architectural resources requires two or more infrastructure resources to implement. The visual devops application visually presents a set of architectural nodes representing the architectural resources in an architectural flow diagram. The visual devops application maps the set of architectural nodes to a set of infrastructure resources sufficient to implement the set of architectural resources, and automatically provisions the set of infrastructure resources on one or more infrastructure computers.