| US 11,816,464 B1 | ||
| Cloud computing platform architecture | ||
| Alex Paul Suraci, San Francisco, CA (US) | ||
| Assigned to Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US) | ||
| Filed by Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US) | ||
| Filed on Jun. 7, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/002,938. | ||
| Application 16/002,938 is a continuation of application No. 14/601,970, filed on Jan. 21, 2015, granted, now 10,007,500, issued on Jun. 26, 2018. | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 8/61 (2018.01) | ||
| CPC G06F 8/61 (2013.01) | 25 Claims |
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1. A system comprising:
a plurality of first computers and a plurality of first storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the plurality of first computers, to cause the plurality of first computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving a sequence of platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands for execution of a computing service on any one of multiple, different underlying computing platforms, wherein:
the platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands are a) independent of all of the multiple, different underlying computing platforms and b) independent of a plurality of resource types included in the multiple, different underlying computing platforms and independent of instances of the plurality of resource types; and
the platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands do not identify any particular resource type of the plurality of resource types, wherein the plurality of resource types comprises containers and virtual machines;
generating, from the sequence of platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands, a sequence of platform-independent, resource-specific requests, wherein:
the platform-independent, resource-specific requests are a) independent of all of the multiple, different underlying computing platforms and b) specific to a particular resource type, of the plurality of resource types, that is included in one or more of the multiple, different underlying computing platforms; and
the platform-independent, resource-specific requests comprise requests for allocating cloud computing resources of the particular resource type and using the allocated cloud computing resources to effectuate the platform-independent, resource-agnostic commands on one of the multiple, different underlying distributed computing platforms; and
providing, to an underlying computing platform from the multiple, different underlying computing platforms, the sequence of generated platform-independent, resource-specific requests to cause the underlying computing platform to perform platform-specific, resource instance-specific operations that correspond to the sequence of platform-independent, resource-specific requests; and
a plurality of second computers that implement the underlying computing platform and a plurality of second storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the plurality of second computers, to cause the plurality of second computers to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from at least one of the plurality of first computers, the sequence of generated platform-independent, resource-specific requests;
determining, for each request in the sequence of platform-independent, resource-specific requests, one or more platform-specific, resource instance-specific operations, wherein each platform-specific, resource instance-specific operation specifies one or more instances on the underlying computing platform of the particular resource type that is identified by the corresponding platform-independent, resource-specific request; and
performing the platform-specific, resource instance-specific operations to cause execution of the computing service.
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