Application monitoring using workload metadata

1. A system for installing an application, comprising:

an interface configured to receive an indication of a new application; and

a processor configured to:

provide an indication to check policy to deploy the new application;

check metadata to determine a deploy policy indication, comprising to:

determine whether the new application is allowed to be deployed based on a set of compliance policy rules, comprising to:

determine whether application metadata of the metadata complies with a selected policy rule, comprising to:

 perform a set of logical tests on the application metadata; and

 in response to a determination that there is no value stored for the metadata, ignore the selected policy rule; and

in response to a determination that the application metadata complies with the selected policy rule, determine that the new application is allowed to be deployed; and

in response to a determination that the new application is allowed to be deployed, provide the deploy policy indication;

receive the deploy policy indication; and

in response to a determination to deploy the new application, deploy the new application.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

provide deploy information to an application monitor.

3. The system of claim 2 , further comprising a metadata storage system, wherein the new application monitor uses the deploy information to add deploy metadata to the metadata storage system.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive an indication to run the new application.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

provide an indication to check policy to run the new application.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the indication to check policy is provided to a policy enforcement system.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the policy enforcement system checks metadata stored in the metadata storage system to determine a run policy indication.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

receive the run policy indication.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

in the event that it is determined to run the new application, run the new application.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

provide running information to the application monitor.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the application monitor uses the running information to add running metadata to the metadata storage system.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein in the event that a policy enforcement system receives an indication to check policy, the policy enforcement system retrieves metadata from the metadata storage system.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the metadata includes developer metadata, deploy metadata, and running metadata.

14. A method for installing an application, comprising:

receiving, using an interface, an indication of a new application;

providing, using a processor, an indication to check policy to deploy the new application;

checking metadata to determine a deploy policy indication, comprising:

determining whether the new application is allowed to be deployed based on a set of compliance policy rules, comprising:

determining whether application metadata of the metadata complies with a selected policy rule, comprising:

performing a set of logical tests on the application metadata; and

in response to a determination that there is no value stored for the metadata, ignoring the selected policy rule; and

in response to a determination that the application metadata complies with the selected policy rule, determine that the new application is allowed to be deployed; and

in response to a determination that the new application is allowed to be deployed, providing the deploy policy indication;

receiving the deploy policy indication; and

in response to a determination to deploy the new application, deploying the new application.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the method further comprises:

providing deploy information to an application monitor.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the new application monitor uses the deploy information to add deploy metadata to a metadata storage system.

17. A computer program product for installing an application, the computer program product being embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and comprising computer instructions for:

receiving an indication of a new application;

providing an indication to check policy to deploy the new application;

checking metadata to determine a deploy policy indication, comprising:

determining whether the new application is allowed to be deployed based on a set of compliance policy rules, comprising:

determining whether application metadata of the metadata complies with a selected policy rule, comprising:

performing a set of logical tests on the application metadata; and

in response to a determination that there is no value stored for the metadata, ignoring the selected policy rule; and

in response to a determination that the application metadata complies with the selected policy rule, determine that the new application is allowed to be deployed; and

in response to a determination that the new application is allowed to be deployed, providing the deploy policy indication;

receiving the deploy policy indication; and

in response to a determination to deploy the new application, deploying the new application.

18. The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the computer program product further comprises computer instructions for:

providing deploy information to an application monitor.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 , wherein the new application monitor uses the deploy information to add deploy metadata to a metadata storage system.