Patent ID: 8874755
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: generating a graphical interface on a computing device; receiving input corresponding to one or more requirements, wherein the input is received using the graphical interface, and wherein the one or more requirements relate to a service in a cloud-based computing environment; maintaining a rule specifying how to convert the one or more requirements into one or more entries of a provisioning template; converting the one or more requirements into the one or more entries of the provisioning template using the rule, wherein the one or more entries include an indication of hardware or a virtual machine environment configured to meet the one or more requirements, and wherein the one or more entries are in a format for instructing a provisioning program how to provision the cloud-based computing environment; and providing the provisioning template to a provisioning program as a configuration command file to provision the cloud-based computing environment.