US 12,067,425 B2
System and method for provisioning cloud computing resources
Oluwanifemi Oluyemi, Toronto (CA); Chuan Ran, Morrisville, NC (US); A. Jaylani Sharif, Ashburn, VA (US); and Vamsee Movva, Cary, NC (US)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/211,260.
Prior Publication US 2022/0308929 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01); G06F 16/51 (2019.01); G06F 16/54 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 9/5072 (2013.01) [G06F 9/44505 (2013.01); G06F 16/51 (2019.01); G06F 16/54 (2019.01); G06F 16/5854 (2019.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of provisioning cloud computing resources comprising:
converting a hand sketch representation of cloud computing resources to a digital image with metadata;
generating a cloud deployment representation from the digital image with metadata including determining whether the digital image matches a defined symbol in a symbol database and generating, in response to the digital image matching the defined symbol in the symbol database, the cloud deployment representation based upon the matching defined symbol;
preparing cloud deployment manifest and configuration files from the cloud deployment representation;
converting the cloud deployment manifest and configuration files into input data to be used to provision cloud computing resources; and
transmitting the input data to a cloud computing vendor to provision the cloud computing resources.