Provisioning virtual applciations from virtual application templates
A method for provisioning a virtual datacenter application is discussed. A request may be received from a tenant for a virtual datacenter application. An application template may be identified and associated with the virtual datacenter application, wherein the application template can comprise a role, a service account, a script, and a workload. The role and the service account can be added to an active directory organization associated with the tenant. The workload can be cloned into a virtual datacenter, wherein the virtual datacenter belongs to the tenant. A script can be executed on the workload according to an execution order organized over multiple additional workloads, wherein a first script can be executed on a first workload before a second script is executed on a second workload, wherein the first script can be different from the second script, wherein the first workload can be different from the second workload.
1. A method for provisioning a virtual datacenter application, comprising:
receiving a request from a tenant for the virtual datacenter application;
identifying an application template associated with the virtual datacenter application, wherein the application template comprises a role, a service account, a script, and a workload;
adding the role and the service account to an active directory organization associated with the tenant;
cloning the workload into a virtual datacenter, wherein the virtual datacenter belongs to the tenant; and
executing the script on the workload, wherein the script is executed according to an execution order organized over multiple additional workloads, wherein a first script is executed on a first workload before a second script is executed on a second workload, wherein the first script is different from the second script, wherein the first workload is different from the second workload.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating the active directory organization for the tenant.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising provisioning the virtual datacenter to the tenant.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising provisioning an environment to the virtual datacenter, wherein the environment is a logical space defined by the tenant.
5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising determining whether the environment already includes the virtual datacenter application.
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising assigning a user role to the workload.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the user role comprises a tenant global role, wherein the tenant global role grants a user a set of permissions common to a plurality of additional workloads in the virtual datacenter.
8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the user role comprises a production and non-production role, the production role granting a user a first permission in a production environment and the non-production role granting the user a second role in a non-production environment.
9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the user role comprises an environment specific role, wherein the environment specific role provides a user a permission specific to an environment.
10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising creating a user role in the active directory organization.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the role comprises a service account role defining a permission for the service account.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising cloning the workload from a local non-transitory machine readable storage device.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein executing the script comprises executing the script using a service account.
14. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having machine readable code embodied therein for defining an virtual datacenter application, comprising:
receiving a request from a tenant for the virtual datacenter application;
identifying an application template associated with the virtual datacenter application, wherein the application template comprises a role, a service account, a script, and a workload;
adding the role and the service account to an active directory organization associated with the tenant;
cloning the workload into a virtual datacenter, wherein the virtual datacenter belongs to the tenant; and
executing the script on the workload, wherein the script is executed according to an execution order organized over multiple additional workloads, wherein a first script is executed on a first workload before a second script is executed on a second workload, wherein the first script is different from the second script, wherein the first workload is different from the second workload.
15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising provisioning an environment to the virtual datacenter, wherein the environment is a logical space defined by the tenant.
16. The method of claim 14 , further comprising cloning the workload from a local non-transitory machine readable storage device.
17. A system for defining an virtual datacenter application, the system comprising a processor a non-transitory computer readable medium, the processor configured to:
receive a request from a tenant for the virtual datacenter application;
identify an application template associated with the virtual datacenter application, wherein the application template comprises a role, a service account, a script, and a workload;
add the role and the service account to an active directory organization associated with the tenant;
clone the workload into a virtual datacenter, wherein the virtual datacenter belongs to the tenant; and
execute the script on the workload, wherein the script is executed according to an execution order organized over multiple additional workloads, wherein a first script is executed on a first workload before a second script is executed on a second workload, wherein the first script is different from the second script, wherein the first workload is different from the second workload.
18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising provisioning an environment to the virtual datacenter, wherein the environment is a logical space defined by the tenant.
19. The method of claim 17 , further comprising cloning the workload from a local non-transitory machine readable storage device.