System and methods for improved adoption of cloud container profiles

A method for determining a subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances for transition into container-based computing instances from a set of virtual machine computing instances, the method comprising:

• receiving one or more data sets representing (i) characteristics of operation of each of virtual machine computing instance of the set of virtual machine computing instances, the one or more data sets including at least one of processor usage, memory usage, or network usage, and (ii) an integrated development environment (IDE) of each virtual machine computing instance;
• processing the one or more data sets to output a metric representative of a relative ease of containerization for each virtual machine computing instance;
• generating a data structure storing a subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances determined based on the one or more virtual machine computing instances having a metric greater than a predefined threshold;
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• segmenting the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances into one or more container groups each corresponding to one or more container devices, each container device having a shared operating system shared across all containers associated with the container group hosted by the container device;
• wherein the data structure is processed by a downstream computing process for transitioning the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances to be hosted on one or more corresponding container devices based on the identified one or more container groups;
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• wherein the segmenting of the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances into one or more container groups each corresponding to one or more container devices is based at least on an inferred role of the corresponding candidate virtual machine instance determined based at least on the IDE of the corresponding candidate virtual machine instance.

A non-transitory computer readable storing machine interpretable instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute a method for determining a subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances for transition into container-based computing instances from a set of virtual machine computing instances, the method comprising:

• receiving one or more data sets representing (i) characteristics of operation of each of virtual machine computing instance of the set of virtual machine computing instances, the one or more data sets including at least one of processor usage, memory usage, or network usage, and (ii) IDE of each virtual machine computing instance;
• processing the one or more data sets to output a metric representative of a relative ease of containerization for each virtual machine computing instance;
• generating a data structure storing a subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances determined based on the one or more virtual machine computing instances having a metric greater than a predefined threshold;
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• segmenting the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances into one or more container croups each corresponding to one or more container devices, each container device having a shared operating system shared across all containers associated with the container group hosted by the container device;
• wherein the data structure is processed by a downstream computing process for transitioning the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances to be hosted on one or more corresponding container devices based on the identified one or more container groups;
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• wherein the segmenting of the subset of candidate virtual machine computing instances into one or more container groups each corresponding to one or more container devices is based at least on an inferred role of the corresponding candidate virtual machine instance determined based at least on the IDE of the corresponding candidate virtual machine instance.