System and method for infrastructure scaling

A computing device, comprising:

• a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of scaling a computer infrastructure;
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• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• determine a first property of one or more containers that are deployed over the computer infrastructure;
• determine a second property of one or more headroom containers that remain undeployed over the computer infrastructure;
• simulate a container orchestrator using an aggregation of the first property and the second property to determine an expected deployment of a combination of the one or more containers and the one or more headroom containers;
• based on the expected deployment, determine whether the computer infrastructure is sufficient for deploying the combination of the one or more containers and the one or more headroom containers;
• in response to determining that the computer infrastructure is insufficient, issue a request to an infrastructure management service to allocate additional computer infrastructure to associate with the one or more headroom containers;
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• maintain the association between the allocated additional computer infrastructure with the one or more headroom containers until the allocated additional computer infrastructure is provided to the one or more containers deployed over the computer infrastructure.

A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of scaling a computer infrastructure, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, cause the at least one machine to:

• simulate a container orchestrator using a combination of a first property of one or more containers deployed over the computer infrastructure and a second property of one or more headroom containers that remain undeployed over the computer infrastructure;
• obtain, from the simulation, an expected deployment of a combination of the one or more containers and the one or more headroom containers;
• based on the expected deployment, determine whether the computer infrastructure is sufficient for deploying the combination of the one or more containers and the one or more headroom containers;
• and
• in response to determining the computer infrastructure is insufficient, issue a request to allocate additional computer infrastructure to associate with the one or more headroom containers;
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• maintain the association between the allocated additional computer infrastructure with the one or more headroom containers until the allocated additional computer infrastructure is provided to the one or more containers deployed over the computer infrastructure.