International Business Machines Corporation

Edward Charles Snible

Alexander V Konstantinou

Daniel Christopher Berg

William Carlisle Arnold

Tamar Eilam

Michael H Kalantar

Michael D Elder

John Eric Swanke

Brad Lee Blancett

Chad M Holliday

Harm Sluiman

Narinder Makin

Timothy A Pouyer

Tova Roth

Andrew Neil Trossman

Alexander A Totok

David Michael Chess

Keeranoor G Kumar

Shu-Chun Jeane Chen

Shang Qing Guo

Dinakaran B Joseph

Ian N Whalley

Matt Richard Hogstrom

Gili Mendel

John William Sweitzer

Peter James Brittenham

Asaf Adi

Ruth Edith Willenborg

Jose I Ortiz

Alexander Kofman

Mark Douglas Weitzel

Paul Darius Vytas

Murray J Beaton

Hua Chen

Pierre Darmon

Kshitij M Vichare

John A Pershing

Hendra Suwanda

Peter Kenneth Malkin

Philip Shi-lung Yu

Hubertus Franke

Jai P Menon

Constantin Mircea Adam

Liang-Jie Zhang

James Sargent Lipscomb

Robert J Schloss

Marc Hubert Willebeek-LeMair

Sih-Pin Subrina Chang

Philip Shi-Lung Yu

Abdulhamid Adebowale Adebayo

Arun Ramchandra

Nerla Jean-Louis

David M Levine

Alice Tae Yun Yeung

Alice Tse Yun Yeung

Marc Hubert Willebeek-Lemair

Robert Jeffrey Schloss

Techniques for managing and processing of configuration changes associated with a service container associated with a service mesh are presented. An application management component can determine immutable configuration data (ICD) relating to configuration change processing for the service container based on policies received from an application owner. A message processing component (MMC) of a service proxy associated with the service container can receive, via a control plane, a message associated with an untrusted entity. MMC can determine whether the message comprises a configuration change request relating to interaction between the application and the service mesh, and, if so, can determine whether to allow the service proxy to process the configuration change based on analysis of the configuration change and ICD. If ICD indicates the configuration change is not allowed, service proxy can discard the request. If ICD indicates the configuration change is allowed, service proxy can implement the configuration change.

Trusted execution environment for service mesh

A composable software bundle is created by retrieving a semantic representation of a set of software modules. A functional representation of a set of operations is retrieved. Each operation in the set of operations is to be performed on the set of software modules during at least one virtual image life-cycle phase in a set of virtual image life-cycle phases. A set of artifacts including a set of executable instructions associated with the set of operations is identified. The semantic representation, the functional representation, and the set of artifacts, are stored in a composable software bundle.

Semantically rich composable software image bundles

A method to match an autonomic manager with a manageable resource may include using a management style profile to match the autonomic manager with the manageable resource. The method may also include validating that the autonomic manager can manage the manageable resource using a defined management style of the autonomic manager.

Matching an autonomic manager with a manageable resource

A virtual image is created by receiving a selection of at least one composable software bundle. The at least one composable software bundle includes a first set of metadata and a first set of artifacts comprising a first set of executable instructions associated with a first set of operations. A virtual image asset is selected and received. The virtual image asset includes one or more virtual image disks, a second set of metadata, and a second set of artifacts including a second set of executable instructions associated with a second set of operations. A new virtual image asset is created based on the at least one composable software bundle and the virtual image asset. The new virtual image asset includes a third set of metadata that is based on the first set of metadata and the second set of metadata.

Designing and building virtual images using semantically rich composable software image bundles

Lifecycles of virtual image assets are managed as follows. A set of assets including a set virtual image assets and a set of software bundle assets are analyzed. At least a portion of relationship data between one or more of the virtual image assets and one or more of the software bundle assets is determined. The at least a portion of relationship data is stored in a memory. At least one of one or more virtual image assets and one or more software bundle assets are determined to be associated with a set of changes. At least one virtual image asset that is related to the one or more virtual image assets and/or one or more software bundle assets associated with the set of changes is identified. The at least one virtual image asset that has been identified is updated based on the set of changes.

System for managing lifecycles for virtual image assets

Method for managing lifecycles for virtual image assets

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for model driven deployment of component based applications. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for model driven deployment of component based applications can include selecting units representative of corresponding programmatic objects to be deployed into a target environment and specifying a deployment topology for the target environment. The method also can include matching portions of the units to different automation signatures and filtering the different automation signatures to a set of automation signatures based upon the deployment topology. The set of automation signatures can be ordered according to known dependencies of a corresponding deployment model and the ordered set of automation signatures can be bundled into an automation workflow and published to an automation engine for execution to deploy the programmatic objects into the target environment.

Model driven deployment of composite applications

A deployment modeling platform enables a user to model application characteristics of target software and to associate application modeling parameters to the modeled application characteristics. A user may also model environment characteristics of a target deployment environment and to associate environment modeling parameters to the modeled deployment environment characteristics. Still further, a user may create a deployment model that associates and maps selected parameters of the modeled application characteristics of the target software to associated parameters of the modeled environment characteristics of the deployment environment, and to verify that each parameter that relates to a requirement is mapped to and is fulfilled by an associated parameter that relates to a corresponding capability to determine whether validation problems exist in order to deploy the target software in the associated deployment environment.

Simplified deployment modeling

Various embodiments disclose a method and system for creating a virtual part used for composing a virtual solution. In one embodiment, a user's selection of at least one virtual image is received. A set of configurability points is associated with the virtual image. A set of parameters of a virtual part is set as configurable during virtual solution composition. A set of virtual ports is generated. Each virtual port within the set of virtual ports indicates at least one of a set of virtual parts required by a virtual part including the set of virtual ports and a set of virtual parts that is compatible with the virtual part. A set of configuration operations is received. A virtual part including at least the virtual image, the set of configurability points, the set of virtual ports, and the configuration operations is generated.

Virtual parts having configuration points and virtual ports for virtual solution composition and deployment

A method and information processing system are provided for creating a virtual part and for composing and deploying a virtual solution with one or more virtual parts. The virtual part includes: a virtual image including a set of compatible software components; a set of configurability points, each configurability point defining at least one parameter of the virtual part that is configurable; a set of virtual ports, wherein each virtual port indicates at least one of a set of virtual parts required by the virtual part and a set of virtual parts that are compatible with the virtual part; and a set of configuration scripts adapted to reconfigure the virtual image.

Virtual solution composition and deployment system and method

Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for configuring a computing system. A system for configuring a computing system includes a mechanism for creating a model of a computing system, a validator for determining whether there are any errors in the model, and a resolver, responsive to determining that there is at least one error in the model, for determining whether there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error. A selector, responsive to determining that there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error, selects at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error, and applies the at least one selected resolution to the model to form a transformed model. An output outputs the transformed model to a user.

Method and system for modeling, validating and automatically resolving goals and dependencies between elements within a topology

Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for configuring a computing system. A determination is made whether there are any errors in the model, and responsive to determining that there is at least one error in the model, a determination is made whether there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error. Responsive to determining that there is at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error, at least one resolution among the at least one resolution for correcting the at least one error is selected to form at least one selected resolution to correct the at least one error. The at least one selected resolution is applied to the model to form a transformed model, and the transformed model is output to a user.

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