International Business Machines Corporation

Jian Qiu Wang

WuMi Zhong

Bin Gu

Gong Zhang

Xue Xiang Cui

Yang Yang

Chuan Ran

A deployment specification for implementing a requested cloud service is received by a server. A resource pool is queried by the server for available resources required by the deployment specifications. The resource pool includes a plurality of pre-configured resources for implementing one or more cloud services. A first resource required by the deployment specification is determined to be available within the resource pool. First resource metadata associated with the first resource is requested from a database. The resource metadata includes a resource identifier and a resource type of the first resource. The resource metadata associated with the first resource is received from the database. The first resource is deployed from the resource pool according to the deployment specification to implement the requested cloud service.

Accelerating and maintaining large-scale cloud deployment

A method, and associated computer system and computer program product. One or more processors of a computer system receive an upgrade request to upgrade a base operating system (OS) of a virtual machine (VM). In response to receiving the upgrade request, the one or more processors store metadata of the VM into a resource registry. The one or more processors load a new version of the base OS onto the VM. The one or more processors retrieve, from the resource registry, the stored metadata for configuring the VM.

Upgrade of an operating system of a virtual machine

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Jian Qiu Wang