Patent ID: 11893395
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a cloud computing environment, an indication of a deployment in the cloud computing environment, the deployment defining a service to be implemented in the cloud computing environment, the deployment including a desired number of instances of the service;
determining a first state indicative of whether restarts for the instances of the service are to be controlled and a second state indicating that a restart for the instances of the service is requested; and
in response to determining that restarts for the instances of the service are to be controlled and that a restart is requested:
restarting the instances of the service in a controlled manner and in a sequence in accordance with restart criteria associated with the service to prevent downtime of the service during the restart.