Model for managing hosted resources using logical scopes

摘要

A hosted resource management system is described herein that provides systems and methods whereby a cloud-based tenant can define a logical model that allows the tenant to work with cloud-based entities in a manner that aligns with the tenant's own purpose and thinking. The system then reflects this model in a set of management tools and access paradigms that are provided to the cloud-based tenant. Each division in the logical model is termed a scope, and can include various types of cloud-based entities. Each of these scopes may contain similar cloud-based entity types, but because of the organization provided by scopes the tenant can manage these cloud-based entities according to the view and model that the tenant defines. Thus, the hosted resource management system provides a way of managing cloud-based entities that is intuitive for cloud-based tenants and facilities easier management of large-scale applications with many cloud-based entities.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method to handle a request to define a scope for managing resources in a cloud-hosted environment, the method comprising:
receiving a request to define a new scope, wherein the scope associates one or more cloud-based entities in a logical representation defined by a cloud tenant associated with the cloud-based entities; identifying a parent scope to be associated with the newly defined scope, wherein the parent scope can be empty to indicate a root-level scope; receiving one or more scope properties to be associated with the newly defined scope; creating the newly defined scope based on the received scope properties and associating the newly defined scope with the identified parent scope; and sending a scope definition response that indicates success or failure of the scope definition request, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor.