Patent ID: 9329858
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for managing access to a resource, comprising: receiving, by a management component of a shared computing environment comprising a set of resources for executing an application in the shared computing environment, routing data for the set of resources, wherein the set of resources comprises services that implement a functionality of the application, and wherein the routing data comprises: a resource identifier for a resource included in the set of resources; an instance location of a default version of the resource and one or more locations of one or more instances of an alternative version of the resource; and a version identifier for the alternative version that is mapped to the one or more locations; and upon receiving, by the management component, a first request that includes the version identifier and the resource identifier for the resource, using the routing data to route the first request from the management component to an instance of the alternative version included in the one or more instances of the alternative version instead of the default version of the resource; wherein the alternative version of the resource is added to the shared computing environment during at least one of: