CREATING AND DEBUGGING RESOURCE INSTANCES IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM

摘要

Tools are provided to assist users of cloud computing systems to create, monitor, and debug the resource instances they need. Specifically, resource instances are created in a cloud computing system based on a blueprint that is provided to a blueprint processor. The blueprint declaratively defines the resources that the user needs to have created in the cloud. Based on the information contained in blueprint, the blueprint processor causes the cloud to orchestrate the creation of resource instances, doing so in parallel when possible, and to configure those resource instances as specified in blueprint. Techniques are described for generating a timeline to convey status during the deployment process, and for performing debugging operations.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
during deployment of a blueprint that defines a plurality of cloud resource objects, outputting status information about the current deployment status of each of a plurality of resource instances that correspond to, and are being created based on, the plurality of resource objects defined in the blueprint; and during deployment of the blueprint, forming a timeline that depicts the status of each of the plurality of resource instances at each of a plurality of points in time by repeating the step of outputting status information at each of the plurality of points in time; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.