BINDING OF APPLICATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE BLUEPRINTS

摘要

A system includes an application blueprint to characterize a given application to enable lifecycle management of the given application on a cloud. An infrastructure blueprint is provided to characterize cloud infrastructure resources on the cloud and enable lifecycle management of the cloud infrastructure resources. A binding manager binds the application blueprint and the infrastructure blueprint to generate an aggregate blueprint based on the application blueprint and the infrastructure blueprint, wherein the aggregate blueprint enables the given application to utilize an instance of provisioned cloud resources specified by the infrastructure blueprint for lifecycle management on the cloud.