Software application placement using computing resource containers

A method comprising:

• receiving a set of placement rules including an anti-affinity placement rule indicating that a first software application is to be separated from a second software application, wherein the first software application is associated with a first computing resource of a plurality of computing resources;
• determining failure correlations between the plurality of computing resources, each of the failure correlations corresponding to a pair of the plurality of the computing resources;
• identifying a second computing resource, which is different from the first computing resource, from the plurality of computing resources such that the second computing resource has a failure correlation with the first computing resource which is either below a first threshold or the lowest among the plurality of computing resources;
• associating the second computing resource with the second software application;
• determining that associating the second computing resource with the second software application violates a second rule;
• selecting a third computing resource from the plurality of computing resources such that the third computing resource has a failure correlation with the first computing resource which is either below the first threshold or the next lowest among the plurality of computing resources;
• and
• associating the third computing resource, instead of the second computing resource, with the second software application.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

• receiving a set of placement rules including an anti-affinity placement rule indicating that a first software application is to be separated from a second software application, wherein the first software application is associated with a first computing resource of a plurality of computing resources;
• determining failure correlations between the plurality of computing resources, each of the failure correlations corresponding to a pair of the plurality of the computing resources;
• identifying a second computing resource, which is different from the first computing resource, from the plurality of computing resources such that the second computing resource has a failure correlation with the first computing resource which is either below a first threshold or the lowest among the plurality of computing resources;
• determining whether associating the second computing resource with the second software application violates a second rule;
• when determining the second rule is not violated, associating the second computing resource with the second software application;
• and
• when determining the second rule is violated,
• identifying a third computing resource from the plurality of computing resources such that the third computing resource has a failure correlation with the first computing resource which is either below the first threshold or the next lowest among the plurality of computing resources;
• associating the third computing resource, instead of the second computing resource, with the second software application.