Patent classifications
H04L41/5077
System and method for compartment quotas in a cloud infrastructure environment
Systems and methods described herein support compartment quotas in a cloud infrastructure environment. Cloud administrators do not generally have the ability to restrict resource usage in existing clouds. Granting a user permission to create resources allows them to create any number of resources up to a predefined account limit. Compartment quotas allow admins to restrict a user's resource usage to the appropriate level allowing fine-tuned cost control.
NETWORK PATH SELECTION
A method may include monitoring a network performance metric for multiple paths to a destination through a network, and storing historical performance data for the paths. The method may also include receiving a data flow directed to the destination, where the data flow may be subject to a network performance agreement. The method may additionally include determining aggregate historical performances for the paths, and comparing the aggregate historical performances for the paths. The method may also include, based on the comparison of the aggregate historical performances, routing the data flow through the network.
Application deployment and management in a cloud computing environment
Methods, devices, and systems for management of a cloud computing environment for use by a software application. The cloud computing environment may be an N-tier environment. Multiple cloud providers may be used to provide the cloud computing environment.
MODEL DRIVEN PROCESS FOR AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF DOMAIN 2.0 VIRTUALIZED SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS ON CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
A model-driven system automatically deploys a virtualized service, including multiple service components, on a distributed cloud infrastructure. A master service orchestrator causes a cloud platform orchestrator to retrieve a cloud services archive file, extract a cloud resource configuration template and create cloud resources at appropriate data centers as specified. The master service orchestrator also causes a software defined network controller to retrieve the cloud services archive file, to extract a cloud network configuration template and to configure layer 1 through layer 3 virtual network functions and to set up routes between them. Additionally, the master service orchestrator causes an application controller to retrieve the cloud services archive file, to extract a deployment orchestration plan and to configure and start layer 4 through layer 7 application components and bring them to a state of operational readiness.
MONITORING RESOURCE CONSUMPTION BASED ON FIXED COST FOR THRESHOLD USE AND ADDITIONAL COST FOR USE ABOVE THE THRESHOLD
A method includes establishing a cost for consumption of a given resource by a given resource consumer for a designated period of time, the cost comprising a fixed cost for consumption of the given resource up to a threshold consumption level for the designated time period and an additional cost associated with consumption of the given resource exceeding the threshold consumption level for the designated period of time, monitoring consumption of the given resource by the given resource consumer, determining whether resource consumption by the given resource consumer is projected to exceed the threshold consumption level over the designated time period, generating an alert responsive to determining that resource consumption by the given resource consumer is projected to exceed the threshold consumption level over the designated time period, and providing the alert for presentation via a user interface of a user device associated with the given resource consumer.
AUTOMATED INITIATION OF HELP SESSION IN A VIDEO STREAMING SYSTEM
Systems, devices and processes are provided to facilitate the delivery of video content in a video streaming system by facilitating the diagnosis and repair of internet gateway devices used in such video streaming systems. Specifically, the various embodiments provide a mechanism by which an end user of video streaming system can initiate the diagnosis and/or repair of the internet gateway device while maintaining the security of the internet gateway device and the video streaming system. More specifically, a help button is provided on the internet gateway device that facilitates the establishment of a secure network session between the internet gateway device and a help center associated with the video streaming system. This secure network session facilitates the diagnosing of operational errors associated with the internet gateway device and thus can facilitate the effective repair and operation of the video streaming system while maintaining device security.
Virtual network custom resource definition
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying network elements for a set of machines in a set of one or more datacenters. The datacenter set is part of one availability zone in some embodiments. The method receives intent-based API (Application Programming Interface) requests, and parses these API requests to identify a set of network elements to connect and/or perform services for the set of machines. In some embodiments, the API is a hierarchical document that can specify multiple different compute and/or network elements at different levels of compute and/or network element hierarchy. The method performs automated processes to define a virtual private cloud (VPC) to connect the set of machines to a logical network that segregates the set of machines from other machines in the datacenter set. In some embodiments, the set of machines include virtual machines and containers, the VPC is defined with a supervisor cluster namespace, and the API requests are provided as YAML files.
Virtual private gateways using compute instances
A request to establish a VPN connection between a customer data center and a set of resources of a provider network is received. A new isolated virtual network (IVN) is established to implement a virtual private gateway to be used for the connection. One or more protocol processing engines (PPEs) are instantiated within the IVN, and a respective VPN tunnel is configured between each of the PPEs and the customer data center. Routing information pertaining to the set of resources is provided to the customer data center via at least one of the VPN tunnels, enabling routing of customer data to the set of resources within the provider network from the customer data center.
Determining the operations performed along a service path/service chain
Presented herein are techniques performed in a network comprising a plurality of network nodes each configured to apply one or more service functions to traffic that passes the respective network nodes in a service path. At a network node, an indication is received of a failure or degradation of one or more service functions or applications applied to traffic at the network node. Data descriptive of the failure or degradation is generated. A previous service hop network node at which a service function or application was applied to traffic in the service path is determined. The data descriptive of the failure or degradation is communicated to the previous service hop network node.
Specifying a disaggregated compute system
Server resources in a data center are disaggregated into shared server resource pools. Servers are constructed dynamically, on-demand and based on workload requirements, by allocating from these resource pools. A disaggregated compute system of this type keeps track of resources that are available in the shared server resource pools, and it manages those resources based on that information. Each server entity built is assigned with a unique server ID, and each resource that comprises a component thereof is tagged with the identifier. As a workload is processed by the server entity, its composition may change, e.g. by allocating more resources to the server entity, or by de-allocating resources from the server entity. Workload requests are associated with the unique server ID for the server entity. When a workload request is received at a resource, it matches its unique server ID to that of the request before servicing the request.