Granted Patent B1

US 10,841,152 · App. 16/207,689 · Granted Nov 17, 2020

Inventor: Colin Michael Humphreys (London, GB)

Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.

H04L41/0806G06F9/45558H04L67/10G06F2009/45595H04L41/20

Abstract

Claims (48)

1. A distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the plurality of computers, to cause the plurality of computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a service broker, a user input requesting creation of a computing cluster;

generating, by the service broker and based at least in part on one or more release templates and the user input, a deployment manifest that specifies components and properties of a deployment of one or more clusters of a container orchestrator;

providing, by the service broker, the deployment manifest to a deployment manager;

creating, by the deployment manager according to the deployment manifest, one or more computing clusters in which one or more containerized applications are managed by the container orchestrator, the one or more computing clusters including a user space in the one or more computing clusters, each computing cluster configured to execute, in the user space, at least one containerized application specified by the container orchestrator; and

providing references to the one or more computing clusters to a user device as a response to the user input.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein creating the one or more computing clusters comprises designating one or more physical or virtual machines of a cloud provider as components of the one or more computing clusters.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

each computing cluster includes a master node, one or more worker nodes, and a key value store.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein:

each node of the master node and one or more worker nodes includes a respective virtual or physical machine configured to execute the one or more containerized applications; and

the key value store is configured to store one or more persistent data objects.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the operations comprise creating, by the deployment manager according to the deployment manifest, a respective communications network for each computing cluster.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein creating the respective communications network for each computing cluster comprises:

assigning a respective network address to each master node, each worker node, and each key value store; and

designating a respective virtual network router for each computing cluster.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein creating the one or more computing clusters occurs at an on premise computer network.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations comprise populating each computing cluster with the one or more containerized applications.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the one or more containerized applications include at least one monitoring application configured to monitor health of a computing cluster, configuration parameters of the monitoring application being specified in a policy associated with the user input or associated with the one or more release templates.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein populating the one or more computing clusters includes installing containers of the one or more containerized applications on each of the one or more computing clusters according to a customized policy specific to a user that provided the user input.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein creating the one or more computing clusters comprises:

initializing a virtual machine for hosting the one or more computing clusters; and

installing software of the container orchestrator on the virtual machine.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein:

receiving the user input requesting creating of a computing cluster comprising receiving a command specifying a name of the one or more clusters from a command line interface of the service broker; and

generating the deployment manifest comprises determining, by the service broker, the components and properties of the deployment of the one or more clusters using a particular release template corresponding to the name.

13. A method performed by a distributed computing system comprising a plurality of computers, the method comprising:

receiving, by a service broker, a user input requesting creation of a computing cluster;

generating, by the service broker and based at least in part on one or more release templates and the user input, a deployment manifest that specifies components and properties of a deployment of one or more clusters of a container orchestrator;

providing, by the service broker, the deployment manifest to a deployment manager;

creating, by the deployment manager according to the deployment manifest, one or more computing clusters in which one or more containerized applications are managed by the container orchestrator, the one or more computing clusters including a user space in the one or more computing clusters, each computing cluster configured to execute, in the user space, at least one containerized application specified by the container orchestrator; and

providing references to the one or more computing clusters to a user device as a response to the user input.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein creating the one or more computing clusters comprises designating one or more physical or virtual machines of a cloud provider as components of the one or more computing clusters.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein:

each computing cluster includes a master node, one or more worker nodes, and a key-value store.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein:

each node of the master node and one or more worker nodes includes a respective virtual or physical machine configured to execute the one or more containerized applications; and

the key-value store is configured to store one or more persistent data objects.

17. The method of claim 15 , comprising creating, by the deployment manager according to the deployment manifest, a respective communications network for each computing cluster.

18. One or more non-transitory computer storage media encoded with computer program instructions that when executed by a distributed system comprising a plurality of computers cause the plurality of computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a service broker, a user input requesting creation of a computing cluster;

generating, by the service broker and based at least in part on one or more release templates and the user input, a deployment manifest that specifies components and properties of a deployment of one or more clusters of a container orchestrator;

providing, by the service broker, the deployment manifest to a deployment manager;

creating, by the deployment manager according to the deployment manifest, one or more computing clusters in which one or more containerized applications are managed by the container orchestrator, the one or more computing clusters including a user space in the one or more computing clusters, each computing cluster configured to execute, in the user space, at least one containerized application specified by the container orchestrator; and

providing references to the one or more computing clusters to a user device as a response to the user input.

19. The non-transitory computer storage media of claim 18 , wherein creating the one or more computing clusters comprises designating one or more physical or virtual machines of a cloud provider as components of the one or more computing clusters.

20. The non-transitory computer storage media of claim 18 , wherein:

each computing cluster includes a master node, one or more worker nodes, and a key value store.

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