Patent ID: 8832775
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors configured to perform the method, comprising: configuring, by a first workload, a workload with a deployment policy, an identity-based authentication mechanism, and an access-control mechanism; deploying, by the first workload, a first instance of the workload in a first processing environment utilizing the deployment policy, the identity-based authentication mechanism, and the access-control mechanism; updating, by the first workload, the deployment policy to reflect an occurrence of the first instance; and causing, by the first workload, the deployment of additional instances of the workload to additional processing environments using and updating the deployment policy for each additional occurrence of the workload and enforcing, by the first workload, the identity-based authentication mechanism and the access-control mechanism for the instance and the additional instances, and operating the instance and the additional instances independently but acting together as a single unit as managed by the first workload.