US 12,761,892 B2Granted

System and method for service management and container orchestration within a host environment

AssigneeVertiv Corporation

InventorsKenneth Harper, Bradley Lanford

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Abstract

A system and method for service management and container orchestration (SMCO) within a host environment provides a manifest builder for retrieving containers and configuration tools to generate manifest artifacts for a subsequent update (e.g., full or partial) of one or more applications running on the host environment. At runtime, if the host environment is without a network connection to an external repository, the SMCO system includes a manifest launcher for consuming manifest artifacts to load containers for installation or update of the associated applications to local container registries within the host environment as provided by the configuration tools in the manifest artifacts. Further, the manifest launcher configures the container runtime environment (CRE) and/or host operating system (OS) within the host environment according to a desired state of the application.

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Dependent claims

A system for service management and container orchestration (SMCO) within a host environment, the system comprising:

a memory storing one or more computer programs;
one or more processors configured to execute the one or more computer programs;
one or more manifest artifacts associated with at least one application configured for execution on the host environment, each manifest artifact loadable to the host environment and comprising:
one or more container images;
and
one or more configuration tools;
wherein the host environment is embodied in a host appliance, and wherein the host appliance is unable to access a network connection at a run time;
and
the one or more computer programs comprising at least one manifest launcher configured to at least one of install, update, or remove, at the run time, the at least one application in a container runtime environment (CRE) of the host environment by:
consuming the one or more manifest artifacts;
populating a local container registry of the host environment according to the one or more configuration tools with one or more of a container, a container image, or a container suite associated with the at least one application based on the consumption of one or more manifest artifacts;
and
configuring at least one of the CRE or a host operating system (OS) of the host environment according to a desired state of the at least one application.

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A method for service management and container orchestration (SMCO), the method comprising:

retrieving, via a manifest builder of a SMCO system and at a build time, a manifest launcher in communication with at least one remote registry via a network connection, one or more containers and one or more configuration tools associated with at least one application configured for execution in a host processing environment embodied in a host appliance;
generating, via the manifest builder and at the build time, one or more container images based on the one or more containers;
generating, via the manifest builder and at the build time, one or more manifest artifacts based on the one or more container images and the one or more configuration tools;
at least one of installing, updating, or removing the at least one application within a container runtime environment (CRE) of the host processing environment, via the manifest launcher of the SMCO system and at a run time subsequent to the build time, wherein the host processing environment is unable to access a network connection at the run time, by consuming the one or more manifest artifacts to populate a local container registry of the CRE according to the one or more configuration tools with one or more of a container, a container image, or a container suite associated with the at least one application;
and
configuring, at the run time and via the manifest launcher, at least one of the CRE or a host operating system (OS) of the host processing environment according to a desired state of the at least one application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.