Vmware, Inc.

Kiran Singh

Agila Govindaraju

Servesh Pratap Singh

Ashish Kumar Jain

Arun Narayanaswamy

Shyam Sundar Rao Mankala

Shyam Mankala

Anne Holler

Rishi Saraf

Mohammed Muneebuddin

Vishal Jain

Rajesh Khazanchi

Ankit Shrivastava

An example apparatus includes means for generating an application blueprint during a design phase, the application blueprint to bind a service template to a node of an application to be deployed in a cloud environment, the service template to be mapped to a plurality of services that are selectable during a runtime phase; and means for generating a deployment profile during the runtime phase, the deployment profile generating means to: select a first service and a second service from the plurality of services mapped to the service template when the application is to be deployed in the cloud environment, the first service different from the second service; generate a first deployment profile to deploy a first instance of the application based on the first service; and generate a second deployment profile to deploy a second instance of the application based on the second service.

Application blueprints based on service templates to deploy applications in different cloud environments

The current document is directed to an automated-application-release-management subsystem that executes application-release-management pipelines that includes one or more tasks and/or stages, execution of which launch execution of scripts on specified host computers. The capability for launching scripts from application-release-management-pipeline tasks and stages provides flexibility in design and development of application-release-management pipelines and provides an incremental path for migration of legacy-script-based application-release management to automated pipeline-based application-release management.

Automated-application-release-management subsystem that incorporates script tasks within application-release-management pipelines

A disclosed example to configure an application blueprint includes binding, during a design phase, a service template to a node of the application blueprint, the application blueprint corresponding to an application to be deployed, the service template mapped to a plurality of services to be selectable during a runtime phase to implement the node; and storing, during the design phase, the application blueprint for subsequent access during the runtime phase to generate a first deployment profile and a second deployment profile, the first deployment profile to deploy a first instance of the application based on a first service selected from the service template to implement the node, and the second deployment profile to deploy a second instance of the application based on a second service, different from the first service, selected from the service template to implement the node.

A system and method for efficiently replacing clients running a large scale application uses a pool of clients, which includes a group of active clients running the large scale application and at least one standby client. When a particular active client is identified to be replaced, one of the at least one standby client is selected as a replacement client for the particular active client. The particular active client is replaced with the selected replacement client with respect to the running of the large scale application such that the particular client is removed from the group of active clients and the selected replacement client is added to the group of active clients.

Efficient replacement of clients running large scale applications

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools. An example method disclosed herein includes preparing a virtual machine pool including a virtual machine for use in a scaling operation, the virtual machine prepared in accordance with a blueprint of the application deployed in a deployment environment separate from the virtual machine pool, in response to receiving a request to scale the application, determining by executing an instruction with a processor, whether configuration information of the virtual machine pool satisfies a scaling requirement included in the request, and based on the determination, executing an instruction with the processor to transfer the virtual machine from the virtual machine pool to the deployment environment to perform the scaling operation in accordance with the request to scale.

Method and apparatus to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools

Disclosed examples to configure an application blueprint involve selecting, during a runtime phase, a first service and a second service from a plurality of services mapped to a service template, the service template bound to a node by an application blueprint, the application blueprint generated during a design phase; generating, during the runtime phase, a first deployment profile to deploy a first application on the node in a cloud environment, the first deployment profile based on the application blueprint, the first deployment profile identifying the first service; and generating, during the runtime phase, a second deployment profile to deploy a second application on the node in the cloud environment based on the application blueprint, the second deployment profile identifying the second service.

The current document is directed to automated application-release-management facilities that, in a described implementation, coordinate continuous development and release of cloud-computing applications. The application-release-management process is specified, in the described implementation, by application-release-management pipelines, each pipeline comprising one or more stages, with each stage comprising one or more tasks.

Automated application-release-management subsystem

Disclosed examples to configure an application for deployment involve displaying a user-selectable control in a user interface. A selected state and an unselected state of the user-selectable control distinguish between whether different components of the application are to be deployed in a same cloud and whether the different components of the application are to be deployed in separate clouds. When the user-selectable control indicates that the different components of the application are to be deployed in the separate clouds, a first one of the different components is bound to a first cloud and a second one of the different components is bound to a second cloud in an application deployment profile. When the user-selectable control indicates that the different components of the application are to be deployed in the same cloud, the different components of the application are bound to the same cloud in the application deployment profile.

Deploying an application across multiple deployment environments

Disclosed examples to configure an application blueprint involve, during a design phase, binding a service template to a node of the application blueprint. The application blueprint defines an application to be deployed in a cloud environment. The service template is mapped to a plurality of services that are selectable during a runtime phase to implement the node in the cloud environment. During the runtime phase, a first one of the services is bound to the node of the application blueprint based on the first one of the services being mapped to the service template and being selected during the runtime phase. An application deployment profile is generated based on the binding of the first one of the services to the node.

Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed to update application deployments in cloud computing environments. An example method disclosed herein includes identifying an update profile to promote across the plurality of deployment environments, the update profile to update a component of the application, in response to a notification of promotion of the update profile received at a first deployment environment. The example method also includes displaying a user-selectable control in a user interface, the user-selectable control to specify whether to apply the update profile to the component of the application deployed in the first deployment environment, based on selection of the user-selectable control, performing a compatibility check of the first deployment environment and the update profile, and based on an outcome of the compatibility check, applying the update profile to the component of the application deployed in the first deployment environment.

Methods and apparatus to update application deployments in cloud computing environments

Methods and apparatus are disclosed to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools. An example method disclosed herein includes displaying a user-selectable control to specify whether the application is to be scaled in accordance with a scaling policy, based on selection of the user-selectable control, storing, in a blueprint of the application, an indication of whether the application is to be scaled in accordance with the scaling policy, based on the indication in the blueprint, preparing a virtual machine pool in the computing environment, the virtual machine pool including a virtual machine provisioned for use in a scaling operation, in response to a request to scale the application deployed in a deployment environment, determining whether configuration information satisfies a scaling requirement, and based on the determination, performing the scaling operation in accordance with the request to scale by transferring the virtual machine to the deployment environment.

Methods and apparatus to scale application deployments in cloud computing environments using virtual machine pools

Disclosed examples to configure an application for deployment across a plurality of deployment environments involve displaying a user-selectable control in a user interface. The user-selectable control is to specify whether the application is to be deployed across the plurality of deployment environments. Based on selection of the user-selectable control, a blueprint of the application stores an indication of whether the application is to be deployed across the plurality of deployment environments. Based on the indication in the blueprint, an application deployment profile is generated to specify the plurality of deployment environments across which to deploy the application.

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