Adjustment to managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud standard

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform the method of:

• transferring an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image,
• said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
• said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment;
• formulating an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
• said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules;
• bootstrapping an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs;
• executing said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions;
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• on-boarding said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof;
• wherein, in said transferring, formulating, executing, and on-boarding steps, said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment has a management layer;
• further comprising managing said standard image with said management layer together with, and in the same manner as, at least one application created from a managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment application golden master and executing said workload of said customer in said managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment using an instance of said standard image.

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor, coupled to said memory, and operative to:
• transfer an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image,
• said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
• said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment;
• formulate an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment,
• said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules;
• bootstrap an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs;
• execute said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions;
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• on-board said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof;
• wherein said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment has a management layer;
• wherein said at least one processor is further operative to manage said standard image with said management layer together with, and in the same manner as, at least one application created from a managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment application golden master and executing said workload of said customer in said managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment using an instance of said standard image.