Vmware, Inc.

Wmware, Inc.

Rakesh Sinha

Vishwas Nagaraja

Danny Holzman

Arjun Dube

Servesh Pratap Singh

Intesar Mohammed

Nilesh Agrawal

Rajesh Khazanchi

Assaf Berg

Nagaraju Pendyala

Nikunj Nemani

Agila Govindaraju

Rishi Saraf

Raghavendra Rachamadugu

Vishal Jain

Shyam Sundar Rao Mankala

Annie Chen

Parthiv Malani

Devaki Kulkarni

The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.

Integrated automated application deployment

A system for managing a virtualized computing system is disclosed. The system enables a user of a mobile device to efficiently track and manage computing resources via a management application that includes a graphical user interface that is designed to be operated using a conventional terminal (e.g., via a mouse and keyboard). The system may receive commands from the user of the mobile device in a first format and translate the commands into a second format that can be executed by a management application. Embodiments of the present disclosure further enable a management application to verify and securely communicate with users via existing communications services (e.g., social networking services) without expending additional resources to develop custom, secure interfaces for multiple mobile software and hardware platforms.

Cloud computing abstraction layer for integrating mobile platforms

A workflow is expressed as an arrangement of a set of executable tiles. In some embodiments, the tiles include operations expressed in different programming languages. A tile can include a declarative specification of datatypes so that external agents, e.g., workflow services, can identify the datatypes and schemas required as arguments and produced as result; this simplifies the defining of a workflow, e.g., by a workflow coder. A tile can have zero, one, or plural user interfaces; selection of a user interface from plural user interfaces can be based on a user selection, on user roles, or on tile lifecycle stage. Workflow services can communicate with each other so that workflows can be distributed and shifted among processor nodes.

Information-technology workflows using executable tiles with plural user interfaces

A workflow is expressed as an arrangement of a set of executable tile. In some embodiments, the tiles include operations expressed in different programming languages. A tile can include a declarative specification of datatypes so that external agents, e.g., workflow services, can identify the datatypes and schemas required as arguments and produced as result; this simplifies the defining of a workflow, e.g., by a workflow coder. A tile can have zero, one, or plural user interfaces; selection of a user interface from plural user interfaces can be based on a user selection, on user roles, or on tile lifecycle stage. Workflow services can communicate with each other so that workflows can be distributed and shifted among processor nodes.

Information-technology workflow using tiles that declaratively specify datatypes

Information-technology workflows using executable tiles

Information-technology workflows using executable tiles distributed between workflow instances

An artifact manager generates an abstraction for artifacts and repositories in a deployment platform such that the artifacts may be located uniformly and securely in each deployment environment during the deployment process. The described system includes a release automation platform having a release pipeline which is responsible for deploying build artifacts into multiple deployment environments, testing the build artifacts thoroughly in each environment, and follow organization-specific approval processes to promote the build artifacts to a next deployment environment.

Artifact manager for release automation

A cloud computing environment consists of a cloud deployment platform with an application management server executing thereon, and a cloud management server configured to manage a plurality of virtual machines deployed in a cloud infrastructure. When a cloud-based application is deployed to the cloud infrastructure, a deployment plan for the cloud-based application is read, where the deployment plan comprises a first plurality of tasks to be executed in the cloud infrastructure. A determination is made that one or more custom tasks are required to be executed in the cloud infrastructure. After the determination, the one or more custom tasks are inserted into the first plurality of tasks to generate a second plurality of tasks. The second plurality of tasks is then transmitted to the cloud management server for execution in the cloud infrastructure.

Customized configuration of cloud-based applications prior to deployment

A deployment system enables a developer to define a logical, multi-tier application blueprint that can be used to create and manage (e.g., redeploy, upgrade, backup, patch) multiple applications in a cloud infrastructure. The deployment system supports the use of nested policies to manage a deployment plan. Upon determining compliance to the nested policies, the application can be deployed according to an application blueprint, which means any needed VMs are provisioned from the cloud infrastructure, and application components and software services are installed.

Policy management of deployment plans

A system for managing credentials for authenticating and securely communicating with trusted hosts, for example, in a cloud computing environment. The system dynamically updates credentials stored in a database and injects the updated credentials back into a runtime environment without restarting the runtime environment or applications running on the runtime environment. Embodiments of the present invention further enable credentials to be tracked and managed on a per-tenant basis, allowing each tenant that is running an application on a runtime environment to customize which hosts should be trusted.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Rakesh Sinha