Cisco Technology, Inc.

Cliqr Technologies, Inc.

Spectro Cloud, Inc.

Saad Malik

Tianying Fu

Gautam Joshi

Umamaheswararao Karyampudi

Javed Asghar

Sridhar Vallepalli

Amitkumar V Patel

Abhinav Nagaraj

Shmuel Shaffer

Steven L Christenson

Eric Cozzi

Rajesh Basawa

Leonard Brzezinski

Embodiments herein describe using translation mappings and security contracts to establish interconnects and policies between switching fabrics at different sites to create a unified fabric. In one embodiment, a multi-site controller can stretch endpoint groups (EPGs) between the sites so that a host or application in a first site can communicate with a host or application in a second site which is assigned to the same stretched EPG, despite the two sites have different namespaces. Further, the shadow EPGs can be formed to facilitate security contracts between EPGs in different sites. Each site can store namespace translation mapping that enable the site to convert namespace information in packets received from a different site into its own namespace values. As a result, independent bridging and routing segments in the various sites can be interconnected as well as providing application accessibility across different fabrics with independent and private namespaces.

Multisite interconnect and policy with switching fabrics

Embodiments disclosed facilitate specification, configuration, orchestration, deployment, and management of composable distributed systems. A method to realize a composable distributed system may comprise: determining, based on a system composition specification for the distributed system, one or more cluster configurations, wherein the system composition specification comprises, for each cluster, a corresponding cluster specification and a corresponding cluster profile, which may comprise a corresponding software stack specification. First software stack images applicable to a first plurality of nodes in a first cluster may be obtained based on a corresponding first software stack specification, which may be comprised in a first cluster profile associated with the first cluster. Deployment of the first cluster may be initiated by instantiating the first cluster in a first cluster configuration in accordance with a corresponding first cluster specification, wherein each of the first plurality of nodes is instantiated using the corresponding first software stack images.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for composable distributed computing

Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, a first deployment context associated with a cloud based application may be determined. The first deployment context may comprise a plurality of rules, where each rule may specify conditions for applying configurations to resources associated with the cloud based application. The conditions specified by the plurality of rules may be evaluated and configurations of the resources associated with the cloud based application may be determined. In some embodiments, the deployment of the cloud based application on a first cloud may then be orchestrated based, in part, on the first deployment context, by configuring the resources associated with the cloud based application based on the previously determined configurations of the resources.

Apparatus, systems and methods for automatic distributed application deployment in heterogeneous environments

Embodiments disclosed facilitate obtaining a cloud agnostic representation of a multi-tier application. Cloud specific implementations of the cloud agnostic representation may be deployed on a plurality of clouds. In some embodiments, dependency information for each component service in a multi-tier application is obtained, wherein the dependency information for a component service indicates prerequisites for starting the component service; and a cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application is derived, wherein the cloud agnostic representation of the multi-tier application comprises metadata for obtaining each of the component services for a plurality of clouds, and a sequence for starting each of the component services, the sequence based, in part, on the dependency information.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for cloud agnostic multi-tier application modeling and deployment

Embodiments disclosed facilitate distributed orchestration and deployment of a cloud based distributed computing application. In some embodiments, the distributed orchestration may be based on a cloud agnostic representation of the application. In some embodiments, an ordered set of events may be obtained based on a starting sequence for the plurality of components, where each event in the ordered set is associated with a corresponding set of prerequisites for initiating execution of the event. Event identifiers corresponding to the ordered set of events may be placed on an event message bus with persistence that is shared between a plurality of distributed nodes associated with a cloud. Upon receiving an indication of completion of prerequisites for one or more events, a plurality of nodes of a distributed orchestration engine may select the one or more events corresponding to the one or more selected event identifiers for execution on the cloud.

Apparatus, systems, and methods for distributed application orchestration and deployment

In one embodiment, a method can include: receiving rules in an interoperability server, the rules being related to access control for an endpoint coupled to a variable source content stream via a multicast network; and sending to the endpoint using in-band controls of the variable source content stream via the multicast network: a description of content streams available for selection by the endpoint; a procedure for selecting an available content stream; and permission for accessing the selected content stream, the permission being based on the rules.

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Saad Malik