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US 12,242,901 · App. 18/515,811 · Granted Mar 4, 2025

Visual cluster deployment and operation system and method

Inventors: Dominic Holt (Menifee, CA); Manuel Gauto (Annandale, VA); Mathew Jackson (Highlands Ranch, CO)
Assignee: harpoon Corp.
G06F9/5077G06F3/0486G06F9/5072G06F2209/505
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,242,901
App. No.
18/515,811
Filed
Nov 21, 2023
Granted
Mar 4, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2196
USPC
719/328
Abstract

A method includes receiving a request to set up a computing cluster comprising at least one node, the request comprising a selection of a node graphical user interface element that represents at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device, dynamically generating a configuration file comprising configuration language to set up the computing cluster comprising the at least one node, parsing the configuration file to convert the configuration file into at least one application programming interface (API) request and sending the at least one API request to the least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster, and receiving real-time deployment information.

Claims (30)

1. A system comprising:

a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and

at least one processor to execute the instructions to:

receive a codeless request to set up a computing cluster comprising at least one node, the codeless request comprising a selection of a node graphical user interface element that represents at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device, wherein the selection comprises attaching at least one container to the node graphical user interface element to setup the cluster and the at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device;

dynamically generate a configuration file comprising configuration language to set up the computing cluster comprising the at least one node; and

parse the configuration file to convert the configuration file to dynamically autogenerate at least one manifest comprising a desired state of objects associated with the computing cluster comprising the at least one node and insert the at least one manifest into at least one application programming interface (API) request and send the at least one API request to the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster by injecting input that initiates at least one script to copy files into a temporary directory, injecting a saved state, setting up environment variables, and interacting with the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the selection of the node graphical user interface element comprises using an infrastructure visual display (IVD).

3. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to provision volumes, services, and cloud services in the computing cluster.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the manifest comprises one of a Javascript Object Notation (JSON) format and YAML format.

5. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to receive a selection of a graphical user interface element of an image for deployment, receive a drag request of the image to a graphical user interface element of the computing cluster, and deploy the image to the computing cluster.

6. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to automatically generate a variables file that is injected as environment variables into a runtime environment of an executable.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the configuration file comprises a HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) configuration file.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing cluster comprises a Kubernetes cluster.

9. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to set up at least one of a git element and a container element and attach the at least one of the git element and the container element to the node graphical user interface element.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the container element comprises a visual representation of a container image to be deployed to the computing cluster.

11. The system of claim 9 , wherein the git element is associated with a git repository and is built with a text-based set of instructions.

12. The system of claim 9 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to set up a ConfigMap element and attach the ConfigMap element to the at least one of the git element and the container element.

13. The system of claim 9 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to set up an ingress route element comprising a Kubernetes Ingress Route that is attached to the at least one of the git element and the container element.

14. The system of claim 9 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to set up a secret element comprising a Kubernetes secrets storage that is attached to the at least one of the git element and the container element.

15. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to attach the node graphical user interface element with at least one other element using a link graphical user interface element that is dragged from the node graphical user interface element to the at least one other element.

16. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to receive a request to set up a volume element comprising a Kubernetes Persistent Volume claim (PVC).

17. The system of claim 1 , the at least one processor further to display a log associated with the computing cluster.

18. A method, comprising:

receiving, by at least one processor, a codeless request to set up a computing cluster comprising at least one node, the codeless request comprising a selection of a node graphical user interface element that represents at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device, wherein the selection comprises attaching at least one container to the node graphical user interface element to setup the cluster and the at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device;

dynamically generating, by the at least one processor, a configuration file comprising configuration language to set up the computing cluster comprising the at least one node; and

parsing, by the at least one processor, the configuration file to convert the configuration file to dynamically autogenerate at least one manifest comprising a desired state of objects associated with the computing cluster comprising the at least one node and inserting the at least one manifest into at least one application programming interface (API) request and sending the at least one API request to the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster by injecting input that initiates at least one script to copy files into a temporary directory, injecting a saved state, setting up environment variables, and interacting with the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster to provision volumes, services, and cloud services in the computing cluster.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a computing device cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a codeless request to set up a computing cluster comprising at least one node, the codeless request comprising a selection of a node graphical user interface element that represents at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device, wherein the selection comprises attaching at least one container to the node graphical user interface element to setup the cluster and the at least one virtual machine associated with at least one of at least one cloud service provider and at least one on-premise computing device;

dynamically generating a configuration file comprising configuration language to set up the computing cluster comprising the at least one node; and

parsing the configuration file to convert the configuration file to dynamically autogenerate at least one manifest comprising a desired state of objects associated with the computing cluster comprising the at least one node and inserting the at least one manifest into at least one application programming interface (API) request and sending the at least one API request to the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster by injecting input that initiates at least one script to copy files into a temporary directory, injecting a saved state, setting up environment variables, and interacting with the at least one of the at least one cloud service provider and the at least one on-premise computing device to set up the computing cluster to provision volumes, services, and cloud services in the computing cluster.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2024
From: HOLT, DOMINIC; GAUTO, MANUEL; JACKSON, MATHEW
To: HARPOON CORP.
Reel/Frame 066282/0259 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 18101847 · Jan 26, 2023
Provisional Application 63308110 · Feb 9, 2022
Related Publication 20240095096A1 · Mar 21, 2024
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