Patent ID: 7827544

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for deploying computing infrastructure, comprising integrating computer-readable code into a computing system comprising a data storage facility having at least a first server with an associated updateable element, and a second server with an associated updateable element, where the code in combination with the computing system is capable of coordinating update actions in the data storage facility by performing a method comprising: setting a sequence for distributing a plurality of code packages to the associated updateable elements of the first and second servers according to different states of a fixed state machine; wherein the states are traversed in sequence, and include at least one distribute state for distributing at least a portion of the plurality of code packages, and at least one activate state for activating the at least a portion of the plurality of code packages after it is distributed to the associated updateable elements of the first and second servers; wherein sets of the states are repeated for multiple elements based on a grouping scheme specified in an update bundle used by the state machine to perform the update actions and the grouping scheme is dynamically changeable; distributing the at least a portion of the plurality of code packages to the associated updateable elements of the first and second servers according to the sequence, and during the at least one distribute state; and activating, during the at least one activate state, and in a single traversal of the state machine, the at least a portion of the plurality of code packages that was distributed to the associated updateable elements of the first and second servers in the distributing step.