Application blueprint and deployment model for dynamic business service management (BSM)

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that when executed cause at least one processor to manage and provision computer applications in an information technology (IT) environment, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the at least one processor to perform the steps of:

• obtaining a blueprint including a plurality of blueprint attributes of a computer application that are arranged in a schema;
• obtaining a deployment model corresponding to the computer application and associated with the blueprint, the deployment model including a plurality of deployment attributes of the computer application that are arranged in the schema, the deployment attributes including first attributes that are also provided in the blueprint and second attributes not provided in the blueprint, the deployment attributes including run-time variables;
• creating an augmented model based on the schema of the blueprint and the deployment model by automatically augmenting the blueprint with at least some attributes provided in the deployment model, the augmenting including overriding corresponding blueprint attributes with the first attributes of the deployment model, adding the second attributes of the deployment model to the blueprint attributes, and including the run-time variables in the augmented model;
• determining computer resources capable of supporting the augmented model;
• and
• provisioning an instance of the computer application based on the augmented model in response to the determination of the computer resources capable of supporting the augmented model, wherein the provisioning includes:
• deploying a first tier of the computer application based on the augmented model;
• determining values for the run-time variables based on the deployment of the first tier;
• updating a portion of the augmented model relating to a second tier of the computer application based on the determined values of the run-time variables;
• and
• deploying the second tier of the computer application based on the determined values of the run-time variables within the portion of the updated augmented model.

A system of managing and provisioning computer applications in an information technology (IT) environment, the system comprising:

• a provisioning engine including at least one at least one processor and a storage device having executable instructions;
• and
• a resource pool including a compute resource pool and a storage resource pool,
• the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the steps of:
• obtaining a blueprint of a computer application, the blueprint including a plurality of blueprint attributes that are arranged in a schema,
• obtaining a deployment model corresponding to the computer application and associated with the blueprint, the deployment model including a plurality of deployment attributes of the computer application that are arranged in the schema, the deployment attributes including first attributes that are also provided in the blueprint and second attributes not provided in the blueprint, the deployment attributes including run-time variables,
• creating an augmented model based on the schema of the blueprint and the deployment model by automatically augmenting the blueprint with at least some attributes provided in the deployment model, the augmenting including overriding corresponding blueprint attributes with the first attributes of the deployment model, adding the second attributes to the blueprint attributes, and including the run-time variables in the augmented model,
• determining computer resources capable of supporting the augmented model from at least one of the compute resource pool and the storage resource pool,
• provisioning an instance of the computer application based on the augmented model in response to the determination of the computer resources capable of supporting the augmented model, wherein the provisioning includes:
• deploying a first tier of the computer application based on the augmented model;
• determining values for the run-time variables based on the deployment of the first tier;
• updating a portion of the augmented model relating to a second tier of the computer application based on the determined values of the run-time variables;
• and
• deploying the second tier of the computer application based on the determined values of the run-time variables within the portion of the updated augmented model.