Runtime-agnostic management of applications

摘要

An application may be modeled as a collection of resource usage. The model allows the application to be elastic so that additional resource usage can be added when needed. Items may be added to and/or removed from applications at any time without regard to the state of the application. Existing items in the application may also be altered at any time regardless of the application state. A set of interfaces are used to manage the resources. The interface allow for the provisioning, configuration, deployment, monitoring and diagnostics of resources in a consistent way.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
receiving an application model at an application manager, wherein the application model defines an application as a set of resource usages and wherein the application manager manages the operation of the application; accessing the resources, by the application manager, via resource providers, each of the resource providers exposing interfaces for the application manager to manage each of the resources using a respective resource provider, wherein the resource providers provide command and control, health monitoring, diagnostic, and configuration operations to respective resources; identifying, in a lifecycle subsystem of the application manager, an order in which to apply commands to the resources; issuing commands, by the application manager, to the resources via a respective resource provider; collecting health data outputs from each of the resources by the respective resource provider; aggregating, by the application manager, health data outputs from each of the resource providers into a single set of data; and accessing the single set of data, by a user of the application, without requiring access to health data for each resource.