System and method providing automatic policy enforcement in a multi-computer service application

A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions for automatic policy enforcement, the computer-executable instructions for:

• forming a scale-independent logical model of an application for subsequent instantiation and installation across multiple computers in a distributed computer system, the scale-independent logical model having multiple model components representing logical functions of the application and intercommunication protocols;
• converting the model components into one or more instances representative of physical resources used to implement the logical functions, the instances specifying communication ports on the physical resources and communication paths that link the physical resources;
• and
• wherein the one or more instances are for automated deployment by deployment logic to at least a subset of the multiple computers for execution and subsequent automated management by a policy component of the model components according to a policy.

A computing device comprising:

• processor;
• and
• memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising computer-program instructions executable by the processor for:
• forming a scale-independent logical model of an application to be implemented by a distributed computer system, the scale-independent logical model having multiple model components representing logical functions of the application and intercommunication protocols, the logical functions comprising automatic policy enforcement independent of human intervention;
• converting the model components into one or more instances representative of physical resources used to implement the logical functions, the instances specifying communication ports on the physical resources and communication paths that link the physical;
• and
• wherein the one or more instances are for automated installment by deployment logic to at least a subset of multiple computers in the distributed computer system for execution and subsequent automatic policy management by a policy component of the multiple model components.

A computing device comprising:

• forming means to form a scale-independent logical model of an application to be implemented by a distributed computer system, the scale-independent logical model having multiple model components representing logical functions of the application and intercommunication protocols;
• converting means to covert the model components into one or more instances representative of physical resources used to implement the logical functions, the instances specifying communication ports on the physical resources and communication paths that link the physical resources;
• and
• wherein the one or more instances are for automated installment by deployment logic to at least a subset of multiple computers in the distributed computer system for execution and subsequent automatic policy management by a policy component of the multiple model components.