Patent ID: 8583769

Claim:
For a configuration management repository of a distributed platform, the distributed platform operating a plurality of servers that provide content caching and content delivery on behalf of a plurality of distributed platform customers, a method performed by the configuration management repository, the method comprising: storing a plurality of configurations and a plurality of mappings identifying different sets of the plurality of servers to which each configuration of the plurality of the configurations is deployed, each configuration specifying different customized content caching and delivery operation for a set of servers that is deployed with that configuration; receiving a modification to a particular configuration of the plurality of configurations; retrieving a particular mapping for the particular configuration from the plurality of mappings, the particular mapping identifying a set of servers from the plurality of servers to which said particular configuration is deployed; and automatedly deploying the particular configuration comprising the received modification to the set of servers identified from the particular mapping, said deploying comprising modifying the particular configuration already deployed to the set of servers to alter content caching and delivery functions of the set of servers according to the received modification.