Selective scheduling of cloud maintenance tasks

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium, coupled to the one or more processors, storing program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• determining a computing environment in which a maintenance task is to be performed, the computing environment having one or more environment characteristics;
• determining one or more task characteristics of the maintenance task;
• based on the one or more environment characteristics and the one or more task characteristics, determining a similarity between the maintenance task and one or more historical maintenance tasks;
• generating a completion indicator for the maintenance task based on the similarity between the maintenance task and the one or more historical maintenance tasks;
• and
• based on the completion indicator, scheduling performance of the maintenance task for the computing environment.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• determining a computing environment in which a maintenance task is to be performed, the computing environment having one or more environment characteristics;
• determining one or more task characteristics of the maintenance task;
• based on the one or more environment characteristics and the one or more task characteristics, determining a similarity between the maintenance task and one or more historical maintenance tasks;
• generating a completion indicator for the maintenance task based on the similarity between the maintenance task and the one or more historical maintenance tasks;
• and
• based on the completion indicator, scheduling performance of the maintenance task for the computing environment.