Patent ID: 9742873
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: transferring an arbitrary source instance currently being used by a customer in a customer environment to execute a workload of said customer from said customer environment to a target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a transferred image, said customer environment being external to and different from said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, said arbitrary source instance being non-compliant with standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment; formulating an image adjustment plan capturing at least one adjustment required to render said transferred image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, said image adjustment plan comprising a plurality of standardized migration rules; bootstrapping an adjustment orchestrator with said plurality of standardized migration rules, said adjustment orchestrator having a rule evaluation engine comprising a set of corresponding condition-action pairs; executing said image adjustment plan to adjust said transferred image to obtain an adjusted image compliant with said standards of said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment, by evaluating said migration rules with said rule evaluation engine of said adjustment orchestrator and undertaking actions for those condition-action pairs with satisfied conditions; and on-boarding said adjusted image into said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as a standard image thereof, such that said arbitrary source instance is now migrated from said customer environment to said target managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment as said standard image thereof; wherein, in said transferring, formulating, executing, and on-boarding steps, said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment has a management layer; further comprising managing said standard image with said management layer together with, and in the same manner as, at least one application created from a managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment application golden master and executing said workload of said customer in said managed infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment using an instance of said standard image; wherein, in said executing step, said transferred image is adjusted online while running in said managed-infrastructure-as-a-service cloud environment.