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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Su Liu, Austin, TX (US);
Michael S. Ly, Austin, TX (US);
Jorge D. Rodriguez, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Tippett, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to brokering requests for cloud computing resources between a user and multiple infrastructure providers. According to one embodiment, an infrastructure manager acting as a broker receives a template including configuration information for one or more servers. For each of the plurality of infrastructure providers, the infrastructure manager generates an infrastructure provider-specific specification based on the generic template, transmits the provider-specific specification file to the infrastructure provider, and receives information from the infrastructure provider indicating whether the configuration is valid. The infrastructure receives a selection of one or more of the plurality of infrastructure providers to provision the one or more servers and requests the provisioning of the servers from the selected one or more of the plurality of infrastructure providers. The requests generally use the provider-specific specification files for the selected one or more of the plurality of infrastructure providers.