US Patent 8434080 Distributed cloud application deployment systems and/or associated methods

In certain example embodiments, distributed cloud application deployment systems (DCADS), and/or associated methods are provided. A formal description of the cloud application is created. The cloud application's formal representation, with its constituent nodes and their associated properties and interfaces, etc., is exported to a machine processable form. The exported DCADS machine processable rendition and any needed implementation artifacts are retrieved by a cloud application deployer that helps facilitate the deployment of the cloud application into the distributed and heterogeneous cloud environments as prescribed in the DCADS.