US Patent 9270521 Provisioning and managing a cluster deployed on a cloud

A system is provided to provision and manage cloud-based clustered application deployment. In one example embodiment, a clustered computing application is detected as being launched on a cluster of nodes. Each node in the cluster is a virtual instance of a machine within a virtualization service. Status of the nodes in the cluster are monitored to detect availability of a server within the virtualization service A notification message addressed to the server is issued in response to detecting the availability of the server. The notification message includes information for connecting to the cluster.