US 10,649,861 B1Granted

Operational recovery of serverless applications in a cloud-based compute services platform

AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC

InventorsAssaf Natanzon, Amit Lieberman

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Abstract

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing platform including a plurality of processing devices. The processing platform is configured to receive a request to execute a serverless application, to initiate execution of the serverless application responsive to the request, to utilize one or more application function mappings to invoke one or more application functions with each such application function interacting with one or more backend services in executing the serverless application, to capture state of the serverless application for a particular point in time, and to perform operational recovery of the serverless application for the particular point in time utilizing the captured state. Capturing state of the serverless application for the particular point in time comprises capturing the state in accordance with a previously-generated serverless application manifest characterizing the application function mappings, the application functions, and the backend services.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing platform comprising a plurality of processing devices;
said at least one processing platform being configured:
to receive a request to execute a serverless application;
to initiate execution of the serverless application responsive to the request;
to utilize one or more application function mappings to invoke one or more application functions with each such application function interacting with one or more backend services in executing the serverless application;
to capture state of the serverless application for a particular point in time;
and
to perform operational recovery of the serverless application for the particular point in time utilizing the captured state;
wherein capturing state of the serverless application for the particular point in time comprises capturing the state in accordance with a previously-generated serverless application manifest that comprises:
the one or more application function mappings;
container image identifiers for respective ones of the application functions;
and
descriptors for respective ones of the one or more backend services;
wherein the serverless application manifest is automatically generated in conjunction with execution of the serverless application.

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A method comprising:

receiving a request to execute a serverless application;
initiating execution of the serverless application responsive to the request;
utilizing one or more application function mappings to invoke one or more application functions with each such application function interacting with one or more backend services in executing the serverless application;
capturing state of the serverless application for a particular point in time;
and
performing operational recovery of the serverless application for the particular point in time utilizing the captured state;
wherein capturing state of the serverless application for the particular point in time comprises capturing the state in accordance with a previously-generated serverless application manifest that comprises:
the one or more application function mappings;
container image identifiers for respective one of the application functions;
and
descriptors for respective ones of the one or more backend services;
wherein the serverless application manifest is automatically generated in conjunction with execution of the serverless application;
and
wherein the method is performed by at least one processing platform comprising a plurality of processing devices.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing platform causes said at least one processing platform:

to receive a request to execute a serverless application;
to initiate execution of the serverless application responsive to the request;
to utilize one or more application function mappings to invoke one or more application functions with each such application function interacting with one or more backend services in executing the serverless application;
to capture state of the serverless application for a particular point in time;
and
to perform operational recovery of the serverless application for the particular point in time utilizing the captured state;
wherein capturing state of the serverless application for the particular point in time comprises capturing the state in accordance with a previously-generated serverless application manifest that comprises:
the one or more application function mappings;
container image identifiers for respective one of the application functions;
and
descriptors for respective ones of the one or more backend services;
wherein the serverless application manifest is automatically generated in conjunction with execution of the serverless application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.