Servicenow, Inc.

Swathi Pattapu

Sharath Vaddempudi

Kavish Jain

Yerjan Khurmyetbyek

Atul Saini

Khashayar Goudarzi

Wenhui Li

Shaoying Zou

Various approaches are described to manage the execution of operations. Such operations may be performed without human intervention and may help maintain functionality of a cloud platform or client instances. In one aspect of the present approach, the number and/or type of automations starting in a given time frame may be limited to maintain an even or consistent distribution of resource usage. In a further aspect, the number and/or type of concurrent automations may be limited to a defined threshold to maintain an even or consistent distribution of resource usage.

Resource and operation conflict identification on a cloud platform

An embodiment may involve server devices arranged into pods, each server device hosting computational instances, and a central computational instance configured to: (i) obtain per-pod lists of the instances hosted by the pods; (ii) determine a maximum number of the instances to arrange into batches; (iii) determine a group size for groups of the instances that are to be placed into the batches; (iv) execute a first phase that involves removing per-pod groups from the per-pod lists and adding them to the batches, until less of the instances than the group size remains in each of the per-pod lists; (v) execute a second phase that involves removing one of the instances from the per-pod lists and adding it to the batches, until none of the instances remains in any of the per-pod lists; and (vi) schedule one or more of the automations to take place in the data center.

Computational instance batching and automation orchestration based on resource usage and availability

Mitigating resource scheduling conflicts in a cloud platform

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Swathi Pattapu