Rightscale Inc.

Raphael George Jacques Simon

Thorsten Von Eicken

Jose Maria Blanquer Gonzalez

Systems and methods for facilitating cloud-computing provisioning using deployment templates. A deployment management system receives a deployment template that includes a declarative portion specifying a plurality of resources to be deployed and an imperative portion specifying at least one procedure for adding, reconfiguring, or terminating a resource. The deployment management system generates an enumeration of a set of resources deployed prior to implementing a transition based on the deployment template, and generates a second enumeration of resources prospectively representative of a deployment conformant with the template subsequent to implementing the transition. The deployment management system identifies difference between the enumerations and generates a transition plan including a sequence of procedures for implementing the deployment template. In some implementations, an administrator can modify the transition plan. In some implementations, the transition plan includes conditional logic sequences and/or operations triggered by events.

Systems and methods for cloud-deployments with imperatives

A method and system for facilitating management of cloud-based service instances, the system including one or more computing systems configured to communicate with at least one multi-tenant computing cloud, and configured to establish a cloud-based service instance hosted in the multi-tenant computing cloud and an access entity with permissions to access the established cloud-based service instance. The system can receive a request for the cloud-based service instance, the request authenticated as originating from a requestor; consult a set of access controls associated with the cloud-based service instance; determine, responsive to the consulting, if the request is allowable by the requestor; and enable, responsive to determining that the request is allowable by the requestor, the requestor to complete the request using a restricted access credential associated with the access entity.

Systems and methods for establishing cloud-based instances with independent permissions

The present invention is related to associating a machine or virtual machine instance with an access control right in a cloud-based computing environment. In one aspect, the present invention relates to an apparatus for or a method of associating a machine or virtual machine instance with an access control right in a cloud-based computing environment. In various embodiments, the apparatus is capable of, and the method includes, the following: receiving, in a cloud-based computing environment, a request to perform an action; using an identifier for the machine or virtual machine instance to determine that the received request was sent by, or on behalf of, the machine or virtual machine instance; and identifying an access control right associated with the machine or virtual machine instance making the request, to determine whether to perform the action on behalf of, or grant access by, the machine or virtual machine instance.

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Santa Barbara, CA, United States of America

Raphael George Jacques Simon