BRANCHING APPLICATION-RELEASE-MANAGEMENT PIPELINES WITH INTER-PIPELINE DEPENDENCIES

    公开(公告)号:US20170163492A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-08

    申请号:US15063528

    申请日:2016-03-08

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    Abstract: The current document is directed to automated application-release-management facilities that, in a described implementation, coordinate continuous development and release of cloud-computing applications. The application-release-management process is specified, in the described implementation, by application-release-management pipelines, each pipeline comprising one or more stages, with each stage comprising one or more tasks. Current application-release-management pipelines are linear, with the stages sequentially ordered within the pipeline. The current document is directed to an automated application-release-management facility that supports branch points within application-release-management pipelines where, as a result of inter-application dependencies, a task within a stage of the first pipeline associated with a first application launches a second pipeline associated with a second application. Branching pipelines and inter-application dependencies provide a significant increase in the scope and power of automated application-release management.

    POLICY ENABLED APPLICATION-RELEASE-MANAGEMENT SUBSYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20180136951A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15410798

    申请日:2017-01-20

    Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

    CPC classification number: G06F9/44505 G06F8/60 G06F9/45558 G06F2009/45562

    Abstract: The current document is directed to automated application-release-management facilities that, in a described implementation, coordinate continuous development and release of cloud-computing applications. The application-release-management process is specified, in the described implementation, by application-release-management pipelines, each pipeline comprising one or more stages, with each stage comprising one or more tasks. The currently described methods and systems employ configuration files to specify configuration of the execution environment for application-release-management pipelines, application-release-management-pipeline stages, and application-release-management-pipeline-stage tasks and apply policies to configuration files to further specify the execution environments for application-release-management pipelines.

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