Adoption of existing virtual computing resources into logical containers for management operations
US11513864B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 22, 2018 |
| Grant date | Nov 29, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 20, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L41/0843
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A resource management system of a computing resource service provider performs adoptions of virtual resource instances, such as virtual machine instances and virtual data store instances that were not instantiated as members of a logical container, into logical containers that are used to manage members of the logical containers as a group. Adopting such “candidate” resources that were not generated from programmable infrastructure templates allows the resources to be managed in accordance with an infrastructure-as-code framework, alongside resources that are generated from such templates. A template for launching infrastructure instances may be modified to include an adopted resource definition describing the configuration of the adopted resource, so that management operations can be performed on the adopted resource together with the other members of the container. The system can generate an adopted resource definition from metadata of the adopted resource, to be included in the template or to validate the template.
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