Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Muhammad Usman Sharif

Abhishek Kumar Singh

Avnish Kumar Chhabra

Yue Zhao

Huaming Huang

Li Xiong

Cristina Del Amo Casado

Binit Ranjan Mishra

Li-Fen Wu

Siddharth Verma

Harsh Gupta

Reza Sherafat Kazemzadeh

Hariharan Jayaraman

Ash Beitz

Yevgeniy Olegovich Razuvayev

Arbab Amjad

Abhishek Singh

Systems, methods and computer program products are described herein that can be used to help achieve a safe rollout of software in a production datacenter environment. In accordance with certain embodiments, cloud services requests from certain users of a cloud services system (e.g., users that are authorized to receive cloud services via computing devices running test versions of infrastructure software) are dynamically matched to clusters (groups of commonly-managed computing devices called nodes) that are capable of providing the requested services on nodes running test versions of infrastructure software. Within such clusters, the requested services are provided to the users on a subset of cluster nodes that run a test version of an infrastructure software component, while the remaining cluster nodes are not running the particular test version.

Partitioning and orchestrating infrastructure software deployments for safety and agility across diverse configurations and hardware types

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided that enable the automated deployment of microservices to a network-accessible server set. The automated deployment may be based on constraint(s) that are specified by a declarative deployment model that is associated with the microservice to be deployed. For example, a centralized deployment orchestrator may receive microservice(s) and their associated declarative deployment model(s). The deployment orchestrator analyzes the declarative deployment model(s) and determines which microservice(s) are to be deployed based on the constraint(s) specified by the declarative deployment model(s). The foregoing techniques advantageously determine when to deploy microservice(s), while also minimizing human intervention typically required to deploy microservice(s). Moreover, by controlling when certain microservice(s) are deployed and/or which microservice(s) are deployed, deployed microservice(s) that function incorrectly and/or cause at least a portion of the network-accessible computing environment to malfunction can be easily identified.

Automated constraint-based deployment of microservices to cloud-based server sets

Methods, systems, and apparatuses manage rolling out of updates in a network-accessible server infrastructure which operates a plurality of instances of a supporting service. The supporting service is comprised by a plurality of service portions. The instances of the supporting service each include of the service portions. The instances of the supporting service are partitioned into a plurality of slices. Each instance is partitioned to include one or more of the slices, and each slice of an instance includes one or more of the service portions. A software update is deployed to the instances by applying the software update to the slices in a sequence such that the software update is applied to a same slice in parallel across the instances containing that same slice before being applied to a next slice, and waiting a wait time before applying the software domain to a next slice in the sequencing.

Safe and agile rollouts in a network-accessible server infrastructure using slices

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Muhammad Usman Sharif