Accelerating and maintaining large-scale cloud deployment

1. A computer usable program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the stored program instructions comprising:

program instructions to receive, by a server, a deployment specification, the deployment specification specifying a resource required to implement a requested cloud service;

program instructions to query, by the server, a resource pool for available resources required by the deployment specifications, the resource pool including a plurality of pre-configured resources for implementing one or more cloud services, each of the plurality of pre-configured resources comprising a virtual machine provisioned from an infrastructure and available for deployment, the virtual machine having installed thereon a set of operating system components and an application;

program instructions to determine that a first resource within the resource pool matches requirements of the deployment specification;

program instructions to request first resource metadata associated with the first resource from a database, the first resource metadata including a resource identifier and a resource type of the first resource;

program instructions to receive the first resource metadata associated with the first resource from the database; and

program instructions to deploy the first resource from the resource pool according to the deployment specification to implement the requested cloud service, deploying the first resource including storing, in a resource registry, the first resource metadata.

2. The computer usable program product of claim 1 , further comprising:

program instructions to determine that the first resource required by the deployment specification is not available within the resource pool; and

program instructions to create a second resource second resource required by the deployment specification within the resource pool.

3. The computer usable program product of claim 2 , further comprising:

program instruction to add second resource metadata associated with the second resource to the database.

4. The computer usable program product of claim 3 , further comprising:

program instructions to deploy the second resource from the resource pool according to the deployment specification to implement the requested cloud service.

5. The computer usable program product of claim 1 , further comprising:

program instructions to create a plurality of resources within the resource pool;

program instructions to pre-assemble and pre-configure the plurality of resources; and

program instructions to register metadata corresponding to the plurality of resources in the database.

6. The computer usable program product of claim 1 , further comprising:

program instructions to receive performance data associated with utilization of the pre-configured resources within the resource pool over a predetermined time period; and

program instructions to adjust a size of the resource pool based upon the performance data.

7. The computer usable program product of claim 6 , wherein the performance data includes real-time data.

8. The computer usable program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer usable code is stored in a computer readable storage device in a data processing system, and wherein the computer usable code is transferred over a network from a remote data processing system.

9. The computer usable program product of claim 1 , wherein the computer usable code is stored in a computer readable storage device in a server data processing system, and wherein the computer usable code is downloaded over a network to a remote data processing system for use in a computer readable storage device associated with the remote data processing system.

10. A computer system comprising one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, and one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the stored program instructions comprising:

program instructions to receive, by a server, a deployment specification, the deployment specification specifying a resource required to implement a requested cloud service;

program instructions to query, by the server, a resource pool for available resources required by the deployment specifications, the resource pool including a plurality of pre-configured resources for implementing one or more cloud services, each of the plurality of pre-configured resources comprising a virtual machine provisioned from an infrastructure and available for deployment, the virtual machine having installed thereon a set of operating system components and an application;

program instructions to determine that a first resource within the resource pool matches requirements of the deployment specification;

program instructions to request first resource metadata associated with the first resource from a database, the first resource metadata including a resource identifier and a resource type of the first resource;

program instructions to receive the first resource metadata associated with the first resource from the database; and

program instructions to deploy the first resource from the resource pool according to the deployment specification to implement the requested cloud service, deploying the first resource including storing, in a resource registry, the first resource metadata.