AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT AND SERVICING OF DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS

摘要

Deployment and servicing tasks associated with multi-tier, distributed applications, application environments and data centers are automated so that a person does not have to manually perform these tasks. All of the information describing and defining the distributed service is modeled and stored in a re-useable service template that can be used to drive an automated system to programmatically deploy and manage the service over time. Deployment and servicing of a distributed application can be automated using re-useable models that capture hardware and workload definitions. The re-useable models in the form of service templates enable delta-based servicing of the application. The service can be deployed to one or more physical machines, one or more virtual machines or to a combination thereof. A default deployment plan can be customized with instance-specific customizations of service parameters.

主权项

1. A method implemented in a programming environment for software development or application management, the method comprising:
obtaining a hardware profile that defines a hardware configuration associated with a distributed service, the hardware profile supplying instructions that are used for automated configuration of individual machines utilized to implement the distributed service; obtaining a workload profile that defines a configuration of an software application associated with the distributed service, the workload profile supplying instructions that are used for the automated configuration of the individual machines used to implement the distributed service; and using at least the hardware profile and the workload profile to automate configuration of machines that are deployed according to instructions in the template.