US 11,683,232 B2
Methods and apparatus to implement cloud specific functionality in a cloud agnostic system
Evgeny Aronov, Sofia (BG); Anna Delcheva, Sofia (BG); Ivo Petkov, Sofia (BG); Georgi Mitsov, Sofia (BG); and Alexander Dimitrov, Sofia (BG)
Assigned to VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,126.
Application 17/392,126 is a continuation of application No. 16/459,214, filed on Jul. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,082,295.
Prior Publication US 2021/0367846 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 41/08 (2022.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0889 (2013.01) [H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one memory;
instructions in the apparatus; and
processor circuitry to execute the instructions to:
generate a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships;
provide an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned;
generate a first provisioning request based on the blueprint to partially provision the requested cloud resources;
transmit the first provisioning request that is platform agnostic to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and
in response to selection of a cloud resource of the plurality of cloud resources by the cloud management platform, transmit a second provisioning request that is platform specific to the selected cloud resource, the second provisioning request generated based on a removal of the allocation flag from the blueprint and based on an insertion of constraints specific to the selected cloud resource into the blueprint, the second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resource.