US 2019/0294477 A1Published application

Adoption of existing virtual computing resources into logical containers for management operations

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsSamuel Koppes, Daryl Stephen COOKE, Julio Cesar dos Santos LINS, Bharath SWAMINATHAN, Sayali Suhas DESHPANDE, Anthony QUIGLEY, Romit PALIT, Andrew John MAY, Courtney Ann Todd CAMPBELL, Santosh KALYANKRISHNAN, Diane DIAZ

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Abstract

A resource management system of a computing resource service provider performs adoptions of virtual resource instances, such as virtual machine instances and virtual data store instances that were not instantiated as members of a logical container, into logical containers that are used to manage members of the logical containers as a group. Adopting such “candidate” resources that were not generated from programmable infrastructure templates allows the resources to be managed in accordance with an infrastructure-as-code framework, alongside resources that are generated from such templates. A template for launching infrastructure instances may be modified to include an adopted resource definition describing the configuration of the adopted resource, so that management operations can be performed on the adopted resource together with the other members of the container. The system can generate an adopted resource definition from metadata of the adopted resource, to be included in the template or to validate the template.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising one or more processors and memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:

receive a request to perform a management operation on a logical container, the system managing, as a unit, virtual computing resources identified as members of the logical container;
obtain a first template comprising program code readable by the one or more processors to define the logical container in a virtual computing environment associated with a user of a computing resource service provider, the first template further including a first resource definition comprising a logical identifier and describing a configuration of a first virtual resource instance executing in the virtual computing environment;
determine, based on one or both of the request and the first template, that performing the management operation includes performing an adoption of the first virtual resource instance into the logical container;
determine that the logical identifier is associated with a physical identifier of the first virtual resource instance;
obtain a primary identifier that identifies the logical container in the virtual computing environment;
using the primary identifier, obtain, from an electronic data store containing a plurality of metadata records describing the logical container in the virtual computing environment, a first metadata record that identifies one or more stack resource instances executing in the virtual computing environment as the members of the logical container;
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to adopt the first virtual resource instance into the logical container without modifying or deleting the first virtual resource instance, modify the first metadata record to identify the first virtual resource instance as one of the members of the logical container.

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A system, comprising one or more processors and memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:

receive a request to perform a management operation on a logical container;
receive a first template defining the logical container and one or more virtual computing resources as members of the logical container, the first template including a first logical identifier;
determine, based on one or both of the request and the first template, that the first logical identifier is associated with a first instance identifier of a first virtual resource instance that is not instantiated from the first template;
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associate the first instance identifier with the logical container to adopt the first virtual resource instance into the logical container, enabling management of the first virtual resource instance as one of the one or more members, without deleting the first virtual resource instance.

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A system, comprising one or more server computing devices having processors and memory storing specific computer-readable program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to:

receive, from a client computing device in communication with the one or more server computing devices, user input comprising a request to perform a management operation on a logical container;
determine that the user input includes a first instance identifier of a first virtual resource instance to be adopted into the logical container;
receive a first template defining the logical container and one or more virtual computing resources associated with the logical container, the first template comprising a first logical identifier associated with a first physical identifier for adopting a resource;
store the first instance identifier in the first template as the first physical identifier;
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perform the management operation to cause the first virtual resource instance to be adopted into the logical container without deleting the first virtual resource instance.

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