US 2026/0072869 A1Published application

Techniques for generating and utilizing cloud service images

AssigneeOracle International Corporation

InventorsPhilip James Ramsey, Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles

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Abstract

Techniques discussed herein relate to generating and utilizing snapshots (also referred to as “service images”) of a cloud-based service. A snapshot may be generated within a source environment (e.g., one compartment and/or region) and re-instantiated in a target environment (e.g., a different compartment and/or region, the same compartment/region as would be the case in a recovery scenario). The snapshot may include serialized data of any suitable combination of resource metadata, images, block/boot volume content, runtime state data, environmental variables, and the like of the service of the source environment, at a time at which the snapshot was generated. The snapshot may be deserialized in the target environment and used to perform infrastructure and/or artifact/software releases to bring the control plane and/or data plane resources of the target environment to a desired state corresponding to the state of the service in the source environment when the snapshot was generated.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, by a computing system of a first cloud-computing environment, metadata corresponding to a first service resource of the first cloud-computing environment, the first service resource being one of a first plurality of service resources associated with a first service;
generating, by the computing system, modified metadata comprising a data object that replaces a parameter of the metadata, the parameter being replaced being identified according to a predefined parameterization specification;
obtaining, by the computing system, an image that was previously installed at the first service resource;
obtaining, by the computing system, runtime state data identifying a runtime state of the first service resource;
generating, by the computing system, a service image comprising serialized snapshot data corresponding to the first service resource, the service image comprising a plurality of data bytes generated from a combination of the image that was previously installed at the first service resource, the modified metadata comprising the data object that replaces the parameter of the metadata, and the runtime state data identifying the runtime state of the first service resource;
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storing, by the computing system, the service image comprising the serialized snapshot data corresponding to the first service resource, wherein the service image enables a second service resource to be provisioned and configured, within a second cloud-computing environment, to begin execution from a state corresponding to the runtime state of the first service resource of the first cloud-computing environment.

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