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Maintaining control over restricted data during deployment to cloud computing environments

US10623472B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

Karthik Palanivel · San Jose, US
Jason N. Ward · Lee's Summit, US
Maksim Libenson · Issaquah, US
Rajesh Korada · Redmond, US
Mike Kippen · Renton, US
William Bartholomew · Redmond, US
Izabella Lankerovich · Redmond, US
Pradeep Ayyappan Nair · Redmond, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 16, 2018
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 16, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2221/2141
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Releases to the production environment of a cloud computing environment are deployed in a manner that maintains control over restricted data and the data plane of the cloud computing environment. A DevOps personnel is tasked with developing the release. However, the DevOps personnel is not authorized to deploy the release to the cloud computing environment because the DevOps personnel does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environment or the ability to modify the cloud computing environment to gain access to restricted data. Operating personnel who has access to restricted data and the right to modify the cloud computing environment is notified of the release and given release specifications providing details of the release. If the operator approves the release, the release is transferred to the cloud computing environment. A deployment engine then automatically deploys the release to the production environment of the cloud computing environment.

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