Message Controlled Application and Operating System Image Development and Deployment

摘要

A highly automated development of cloud-based application image development and deployment. A developer user interface front end receives build requests and information for the developer. Alternatively, a code-checkin can also trigger a build request. The front end provides a message to a messaging system which is accessed by the other servers. A continuous integration server obtains the message and performs relevant steps in building the request application image, with a template server and the source code control server providing relevant files. As various tasks in developing the application image are completed, messages are sent to the messaging server. Other operations on the integration server listen for selected messages to initiate the next step in the process. Further, other servers monitor the messaging to perform relevant operations, such as storing files that have been produced. Ultimately the finished image can be deployed to application servers to allow user to operate the new application version.

主权项

1. An image development system comprising:
a messaging server for receiving and storing messages and allowing stored messages to be read; a front end server coupled to said messaging server to receive developer instructions to provide a message to begin an image development process; a build server coupled to said messaging server for building completed images in a series of operations, each operation including sending a completed message and triggered by a completed message of a prior operation; an image storage server coupled to said build server and said messaging server to store completed images for deployment; and an application server coupled to said image storage server to receive a completed image, wherein said front end server provide messages to said messaging server and said build server provides messages to and reads messages from said messaging server to determine the flow of the image development process.