Management of components in a hosting architecture

摘要

A service provider can maintain one or more host computing devices which may be utilized as bare metal instances by one or more customers of the service provider. Illustratively, each host computing device includes hardware components that are configured in a manner to allow the service provider to implement one or more processes upon a power cycle of the host computing device and prior to access of the host computing device resources by customers. In one aspect, a hosting platform includes components arranged in a manner to limit modifications to software or firmware on hardware components. In another aspect, the hosting platform can implement management functions for establishing control plane functions between the host computing device and the service provider that is independent of the customer. Additionally, the management functions can also be utilized to present different hardware or software attributes of the host computing device.

主权项

1. A method for managing components associated with a host computing device comprising:
initiating a power cycle of the host computing device; responsive to the power cycle, causing the initiation of a boot process, the boot process associated with information maintained in a system basic input/output system component; delaying the implementation of the boot process; causing a first manipulation of one or more hardware latches to permit modifications to software code or configurations associated with components of the host computing device; implementing at least one management function corresponding to one or more components associated with host computing device responsive to the manipulation of the hardware latches; resuming the implementation of the delayed boot process, wherein the delayed boot process is associated with a trust level to prevent modification of components of the host computing device; prior to execution of untrusted boot code associated with the boot process, causing a second manipulation of the one or more hardware latches to prevent modifications to software code or configurations associated with components of the host computing device; and initiating a second power cycle of the host computing device.