US 10,481,898 B2Granted

Automated software package deployment

Assigneesalesforce.com, inc.

InventorsRaj Advani, Christopher Wall, Benjamin Snyder, Wade Wegner, Josh Kaplan

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Abstract

The application pertains to the automated deployment of software packages to an enterprise's testing, staging and production environments. It does this by detecting events with respect to the enterprise's code base and, upon detection of a change in a package, identifies the application(s) that include that package. For each such application, a workflow is provided defining a pipeline of environments in which a bundle of packages that make up that application are to be installed for testing, staging or production. A software package in which an event has occurred is installed in those environments on a stepwise basis per that workflow and the application is (re)built there for testing, etc. A status of the bundle of packages that make up an application in each of the respective environments is shown in a graphical user interface.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method of migrating a software package through a pipeline of installation environments, the method comprising

detecting an event with respect to the software package,
in response to detecting said event, identifying an application that includes the software package with respect to which the event was detected, and for that application, identifying at least one workflow specifying a pipeline of multiple environments in which multiple bundles of packages that make up the application are to be installed,
with respect to at least one of the identified workflows, installing the software package with respect to which the event was detected in at least a first environment specified by the workflow and building the application with the installed package in at least the first environment,
generating a graphical user interface representing (i) multiple bundles that define the application, (ii) software packages that make up each such bundle, and (iii) multiple environments in which those software packages of those multiple bundles are installed, wherein packages from the same bundle share a common respective visual cue,
signaling, through the graphical user interface, a status of at least the software package with respect to which the event was detected in multiple environments specified by the workflow for the application.

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Non-transitory computer-readable media including instructions configured to cause a digital data device to perform the steps of:

detecting an event with respect to the software package,
in response to detecting said event, identifying an application that includes the software package with respect to which the event was detected, and for that application, identifying at least one workflow specifying a pipeline of multiple environments in which multiple bundle of packages that make up the application are to be installed,
with respect to at least one of the identified workflows, installing the software package in at least a first environment specified by the workflow, and building the application with the installed package in at least the first environment,
generating a graphical user interface representing (i) multiple bundles that define the application, (ii) software packages that make up each such bundle, and (iii) the multiple environments in which those software packages are installed, wherein packages from the same bundle share a common visual cue,
signaling, through the graphical user interface, a status of at least the software package with respect to which the event was detected in multiple environments specified by the workflow for the application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/825,741Filed 29 Nov 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 3 Nov 2017
Published: US 2019/0138289 A19 May 2019
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 8/38
Creation or generation of source code: for implementing user interfaces
G06F 8/61
Software deployment: installation
G06F 8/71
Software maintenance or management: version control ; Configuration management

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Application62/581,505Us provisional application · filed 3 Nov 2017
US 2019/0138289 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 May 2019
US 10,481,898 B2This patent

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