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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rakesh Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishwas Nagaraja, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A cloud computing environment consists of a cloud deployment platform with an application management server executing thereon, and a cloud management server configured to manage a plurality of virtual machines deployed in a cloud infrastructure. When a cloud-based application is deployed to the cloud infrastructure, a deployment plan for the cloud-based application is read, where the deployment plan comprises a first plurality of tasks to be executed in the cloud infrastructure. A determination is made that one or more custom tasks are required to be executed in the cloud infrastructure. After the determination, the one or more custom tasks are inserted into the first plurality of tasks to generate a second plurality of tasks. The second plurality of tasks is then transmitted to the cloud management server for execution in the cloud infrastructure.