US 10,540,173 B2Granted

Version control of applications

AssigneeDelphix Corporation

InventorsChris Patton, Eric Noah Schrock, Matthew Benjamin Amdur, Zubair Khan

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Abstract

An application development system allows developers of software system to manage infrastructure resources during the development and testing process. The application development system allows users to define application containers that comprise components including source code, binaries, and virtual databases used for the application. An application container can be associated with policies that control various aspects of the actions taken using the application container including constraints and access control. The application development system enforces the policies for actions taken by users for the application containers. The encapsulation of policies with the application containers allows users of the application containers to take actions including creating virtual databases, provisioning virtual databases, and the like without requiring system administrators to manage resource issues.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for version control for application development, the method comprising:

identifying an application template of an application development system indicating components used by an application, including at least application metadata indicating one or more virtual databases (VDBs) used by the application;
creating a set of application containers, each application container corresponding to a point in time associated with the application template or another application container of the set of application containers, wherein each application container is instantiated by provisioning to the application container at least a portion of the one or more VDBs as specified by the application template;
creating a branch of an application container of the set of application containers, the branch associated with a sequence of changes made to the application container and corresponding to a timeline along which the sequence of changes to the application container were received;
and
creating a bookmark for the branch of the application container, the bookmark indicating a point in time along the timeline of the branch, wherein creating the bookmark comprises:
identifying one or more data blocks of the one or more VDBs of the application container required to maintain a consistent copy of the data at the point in time of the bookmark;
and
determining, for each of the one or more VDBs, a point in time corresponding to a state of the VDB at the point in time indicated by the bookmark, wherein the determined point in time for a first VDB of the one or more VDBs is different from the determined point in time for a second VDB of the one or more VDBs.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to execute steps comprising:

identifying an application template of an application development system indicating components used by an application, including at least application metadata indicating one or more virtual databases (VDBs) used by the application;
creating a set of application containers, each application container corresponding to a point in time associated with the application template or another application container of the set of application containers, wherein each application container is instantiated by provisioning to the application container at least a portion of the one or more VDBs as specified by the application template;
creating a branch of an application container of the set of application containers, the branch associated with a sequence of changes made to the application container and corresponding to a timeline along which the sequence of changes to the application container were received;
and
creating a bookmark for the branch of the application container, the bookmark indicating a point in time along the timeline of the branch, wherein creating the bookmark comprises:
identifying one or more data blocks of the one or more VDBs of the application container required to maintain a consistent copy of the data at the point in time of the bookmark;
and
determining, for each of the one or more VDBs, a point in time corresponding to a state of the VDB at the point in time indicated by the bookmark, wherein the determined point in time for a first VDB of the one or more VDBs is different from the determined point in time for a second VDB of the one or more VDBs.

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A computer-implemented system comprising:

a computer processor;
and
a computer readable non-transitory storage medium storing instructions thereon, the instructions when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform the steps of:
identifying an application template of an application development system indicating components used by an application, including at least application metadata indicating one or more virtual databases (VDBs) used by the application;
creating a set of application containers, each application container corresponding to a point in time associated with the application template or another application container of the set of application containers, wherein each application container is instantiated by provisioning to the application container at least a portion of the one or more VDBs as specified by the application template;
creating a branch of an application container of the set of application containers, the branch associated with a sequence of changes made to the application container and corresponding to a timeline along which the sequence of changes to the application container were received;
and
creating a bookmark for the branch of the application container, the bookmark indicating a point in time along the timeline of the branch, wherein creating the bookmark comprises:
identifying one or more data blocks of the one or more VDBs of the application container required to maintain a consistent copy of the data at the point in time of the bookmark;
and
determining, for each of the one or more VDBs, a point in time corresponding to a state of the VDB at the point in time indicated by the bookmark, wherein the determined point in time for a first VDB of the one or more VDBs is different from the determined point in time for a second VDB of the one or more VDBs.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/046,871Filed 26 Jul 2018 · continuation
Priority: 22 Apr 2014
Published: US 2019/0187980 A120 Jun 2019
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 8/71
Software maintenance or management: version control ; Configuration management
G06F 8/65
Software deployment: updates
G06F 8/70
Arrangements for software engineering: software maintenance or management
G06F 16/00
Information retrieval

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Application14/258,018Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Apr 2014
US 2019/0187980 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Jun 2019
US 10,037,204 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0301824 A1Published application
US 10,540,173 B2This patent

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