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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ulrich Mueller, Redmond, WA (US);
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Gershaft, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher W. McCarron, Hartford, CT (US);
Marwan E. Jubran, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, media, and systems for secure provisioning of servers within a cloud computing environment are provided for herein. In some embodiments, a management service can delegate provisioning of a server of the cloud computing environment to an imaging service. In response, the imaging service can generate an operating system image for the server and can utilize disk encryption to protect to operating system image. In embodiments, a volume encryption key of the disk encryption can be encrypted utilizing a public key of a trusted platform manager of the server, to produce an encrypted volume encryption key that is protected by the trusted platform module of the server. The encrypted operating system image and the encrypted volume encryption key can then be transmitted to the server to cause the server to be provisioned with the operating system image. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein.