Load balancer and firewall self-provisioning system

摘要

A method and system may receive a request to configure a computing resource, such as a load balancer or firewall based on configuration information received from a user via a web portal. The configuration information may be stored and a subsequent request to commit the stored configuration information may be received. One or more jobs may be queued in a jobs database based on the request to commit the configuration information. The one or more jobs may be dequeued by a workflow engine and executed to configure the computing resource.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a resource management device, a request, from a user, to configure, based on configuration information, a load balancer for distributing server load across one or more server resources;
receiving, by the resource management device, a request, from the user, to create a load balancing resource pool on the load balancer;storing the configuration information and the received requests;receiving, by the resource management device, a request, from the user, to commit the configuration information and the requests;creating, by the resource management device, one or more jobs based on the committed configuration information and the requests;queuing the one or more jobs in a jobs database relating to creating the load balancing resource pool;dequeuing and executing the one or more jobs by a workflow engine to create the load balancing resource pool on the load balancer,wherein the workflow engine calls one or more flows that correspond to the one or more jobs that cause information to be transmitted to the load balancer.