Deployment strategies for continuous delivery of software rtifacts in cloud platforms

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing instructions that when executed by a computer processor cause the computer processor to perform steps for deploying software artifacts for services executing in data centers configured on a cloud platform, the steps comprising:

• accessing a data center configured on a target cloud platform, the data center generated based on a cloud platform independent declarative specification comprising a hierarchy of data center entities, wherein each data center entity comprises one or more of (1) a service or (2) one or more other data center entities;
• receiving a cloud platform independent deployment manifest identifying a deployment strategy for deploying a software artifact on the data center entities of the data center;
• generating a deployment pipeline for the target cloud platform with instructions for deploying the software artifact according to a layout of data center defined by the cloud platform independent declarative specification, the deployment pipeline including a deployment stage specifying a deployment operator implementing the identified deployment strategy;
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• transmitting the deployment pipeline to the target cloud platform for execution, wherein the deployment operator executes on a cluster of computing systems, the deployment operator executing a set of operations implementing the deployment strategy.

A computer system comprising:

• a computer processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing instructions that when executed by the computer processor, cause the computer processor to perform steps for configuring data centers in a cloud platform, the steps comprising;
• accessing a data center configured on a target cloud platform, the data center generated based on a cloud platform independent declarative specification comprising a hierarchy of data center entities, wherein each data center entity comprises one or more of (1) a service or (2) one or more other data center entities;
• receiving a cloud platform independent deployment manifest identifying a deployment strategy for deploying a software artifact on the data center entities of the data center;
• generating a deployment pipeline for the target cloud platform with instructions for deploying the software artifact according to a layout of data center defined by the cloud platform independent declarative specification, the deployment pipeline including a deployment stage specifying a deployment operator implementing the identified deployment strategy;
• and
• transmitting the deployment pipeline to the target cloud platform for execution, wherein the deployment operator executes on a cluster of computing systems, the deployment operator executing a set of operations implementing the deployment strategy.