Patent ID: 11900172
Assignee: NUTANIX, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for bringing-up a computing cluster on a public cloud infrastructure, the method comprising:
(a) a cloud management computing system transmitting to a public cloud infrastructure a first expressed intent for bringing-up a computing cluster on the public cloud infrastructure, wherein an expressed intent comprises a high level description of a desired configuration for the computing cluster;
(b) the cloud management computing system asynchronously receiving periodic cluster status messages comprising cluster status data from the public cloud infrastructure reflecting a current configuration state of the computing cluster;
(c) the cloud management computing system determining, based on the cluster status data, whether the first expressed intent for the computing cluster has been achieved;
(d) when the cloud management computing system determines that the first expressed intent has not been achieved, re-transmitting the first expressed intent to the public cloud infrastructure in direct response to the cluster status message, and repeatedly receiving asynchronous cluster status messages until the cloud management computing system determines that the first expressed intent has been achieved;
(e) when the cloud management computing system determines that the first expressed intent has been achieved, transmitting a second expressed intent, different than the first expressed intent, to the public cloud infrastructure.