Orchestration Engine Blueprint Milestones

1 . A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a network interface coupled to the processor to enable communication over a network;

a storage device coupled to the processor;

an orchestration engine software stored in the storage device, wherein an execution of the software by the processor configures the computing device to perform acts comprising:

receiving a workload request via the network;

extracting a blueprint from the workload request;

identifying milestones associated with the blueprint;

determining business rules associated with the blueprint;

determining a cost of each of the identified milestones;

upon determining that there is interdependence between at least some of the identified milestones, creating a group of milestones based on these interdependent milestones;

ranking milestones based on the determined business rules and determined cost; and

executing a deployment plan based on the ranked milestones.

2 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the workload request includes a blueprint.

3 . The computing device of claim 2 , wherein the workload request includes business rules and identification information of a cloud service consumer associated with the workload.

4 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the business rules are at least one of:

received from a customer relations monitor (CRM) server; and

extracted from the received workload request.

5 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein identifying the milestones associated with the blueprint comprises:

identifying one or more resources requested in the blueprint; and

determining the milestones based on the one or more identified resources.

6 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the milestones are defined in the extracted blueprint.

7 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein identifying the milestones associated with the blueprint comprises:

identifying one or more resources requested in the blueprint; and

comparing the one or more resources to reference milestones of a database.

8 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein a cost of a milestone relates to at least one of:

a financial cost of the milestone;

an estimated time to complete the milestone; and

an estimated risk of the milestone.

9 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein execution of the orchestration engine by the processor further configures the computing device to perform acts comprising: upon creating a group of milestones that are interdependent, orchestrating a deployment plan such that each milestone of the group of milestones that are interdependent is triggered at a time relative to the other milestones in the group such that all milestones in the group that are in a critical path complete at a substantially similar time before a trigger of their dependent milestone.

10 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein ranking the milestones based on the determined business rules comprises: creating a deployment plan that executes the milestones that do not violate the business plan, in parallel.

11 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein execution of the orchestration engine by the processor further configures the computing device to perform an act comprising: upon completion of each milestone, reporting a result of the milestone.

12 . The computing device of claim 1 , wherein execution of the orchestration engine by the processor further configures the computing device to perform an act comprising: upon determining that a milestone of the identified milestones fails upon execution, allowing other milestones to execute without crashing the blueprint reporting a result of the milestone.

13 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a computer readable program code having computer readable instructions that, when executed, causes a computer device to carry out a method of assigning computing resources of a cloud by an orchestration engine, the method comprising:

receiving a workload request;

extracting a blueprint from the workload request;

identifying milestones associated with the blueprint;

determining business rules associated with the blueprint;

determining a cost of each of the identified milestones;

upon determining that there is interdependence between at least some of the identified milestones, creating a group of milestones based on these interdependent milestones;

ranking milestones based on the determined business rules and determined cost; and

executing a deployment plan based on the ranked milestones.

14 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the workload request includes a blueprint.

15 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the workload request includes business rules and identification information of a cloud service consumer associated with the workload.

16 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the business rules are at least one of:

received from a customer relations monitor (CRM) server; and

extracted from the received workload request.

17 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein identifying the milestones associated with the blueprint comprises:

identifying one or more resources requested in the blueprint; and

determining the milestones based on the one or more identified resources.

18 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the milestones are defined in the extracted blueprint.

19 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein identifying the milestones associated with the blueprint comprises:

identifying one or more resources requested in the blueprint; and

comparing the one or more resources to reference milestones of a database.

20 . The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein ranking the milestones based on the determined business rules comprises: creating a deployment plan that executes the milestones that do not violate the business plan in parallel.