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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Out-of-deployment-scope modification of information-technology application using lifecycle blueprint
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vijay Raghavan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yahya Cahyadi, San Jose, CA (US);
Julie Ann Pickhardt, Boulder, CO (US);
Kevin Xie, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An information-technology (IT) blueprint is an executable document that, when executed, can be used to create an IT application such as an e-commerce site. An IT lifecycle blueprint can further be used to manage (e.g., modify) and, ultimately, destroy such an IT application. To this end, an IT lifecycle blueprint can include idempotent methods that achieve the same result whether starting from a blank (real or virtual) infrastructure or from a previously populated infrastructure. To effect a modification that is not within the scope of the blueprint that created the IT application, a new lifecycle blueprint can be created, if necessary, and executed to effect the modification. In a sense, the new lifecycle blueprint replaces the old lifecycle blueprint as a manager tool for the IT application.