System and method for placement logic in a cloud platform environment

A method of providing support in a platform as a service or cloud computing environment for placement logic, comprising:

• providing, at one or more computers, a cloud computing environment executing thereon;
• providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that provides a definition of the service type;
• providing a plurality of service management engines, including for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that receives placement configurations and provisions service instances of the service type;
• associating each of the plurality of service types, and a plurality of service runtimes, with one or more tags;
• and
• provisioning enterprise software applications, within the cloud computing environment, including, during provisioning of a particular service instance,
• associating a service runtime definition with the particular service instance, as provided by at least one of an administration interface, service management engine associated with the particular service instance, or an external environment configuration,
• receiving a placement configuration to be associated with the service management engine associated with the particular service instance,
• determining, by the service management engine associated with the particular service instance and a particular service type, which particular service runtime of the plurality of service runtimes is to be used to provision the particular service instance, based on a matching of tags associated with the particular service type and tags associated with the plurality of service runtimes, and
• provisioning, by the service management engine associated with the service type, the particular service instance at the particular service runtime, according to the service runtime definition and the placement configuration associated with the particular service instance.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium, including instructions stored thereon which when read and executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform the steps comprising:

• providing a cloud computing environment executing on the one or more computers;
• providing, for each service type of a plurality of service types, a service definition package that provides a definition of the service type;
• providing a plurality of service management engines, including for each service type of the plurality of service types, a service management engine that receives placement configurations and provisions service instances of the service type;
• associating each of the plurality of service types, and a plurality of service runtimes, with one or more tags;
• and
• provisioning enterprise software applications, within the cloud computing environment, including, during provisioning of a particular service instance,
• associating a service runtime definition with the particular service instance, as provided by at least one of an administration interface, service management engine associated with the particular service instance, or an external environment configuration,
• receiving a placement configuration to be associated with the service management engine associated with the particular service instance,
• determining, by the service management engine associated with the particular service instance and a particular service type, which particular service runtime of the plurality of service runtimes is to be used to provision the particular service instance, based on a matching of tags associated with the particular service type and tags associated with the plurality of service runtimes, and
• provisioning, by the service management engine associated with the service type, the particular service instance at the particular service runtime, according to the service runtime definition and the placement configuration associated with the particular service instance.