US 2022/0188170 A1 · Multi-Tenant Control Plane Management on Computing Platform

Abstract

Methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable storage media for managing a multi-tenant cloud computing platform. Rather than maintain cluster control planes separately for each tenant, a cloud provider control plane implemented on one or more nodes can manage the creation, allocation, execution, and destruction of cluster control planes in an on-demand way. Computing resources can be used more efficiently at least because resources are not under-utilized. Adding additional tenants can be done with zero or small marginal cost per-tenant, because cluster control planes for servicing requests by the tenant are executed in response to a request, but destroyed when a tenant for the plane is idle. Multiple instances of an API server implementing a platform API for communicating between devices of the platform and clusters of computing resources can be generated and modified on a per-tenant basis.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more storage devices in communication with the one or more processors, the one or more storage devices storing instructions, when executed by the one or processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
maintaining a plurality of cluster control planes, each cluster control plane comprising one or more respective instances of software of an Application Programming Interface (API) server, wherein each cluster control plane is configured to receive API requests and to process the API requests using the respective one or more instances of the API server;
receiving an API request to modify or read a state for a cluster of computing resources of a computing platform;
and
in response to receiving the API request:
identifying a cluster control plane of the plurality of cluster control planes corresponding to the API request, and
causing the identified cluster control plane to modify or read the state of the cluster in accordance with the API request.

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A computer-implemented method, comprising:

maintaining a plurality of cluster control planes, each cluster control plane comprising one or more respective instances of software of an Application Programming Interface (API) server, wherein each cluster control plane is configured to receive API requests and to process the API requests using the respective one or more instances of the API server;
receiving an API request to modify or read a state for a cluster of computing resources of a computing platform;
and
in response to receiving the API request:
identifying a cluster control plane of the plurality of cluster control planes corresponding to the API request, and
causing the identified cluster control plane to modify or read the state of the cluster in accordance with the API request.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Multi-Tenant Control Plane Management on Computing Platform

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Abstract

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