Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to perform service failover

A network controller to perform service failover, the network controller comprising:

• first monitoring circuitry to detect a failure condition associated with execution of a service by a first compute platform, the execution of the service responsive to a first request;
• request forwarding circuitry to send a second request to a second compute platform to execute the service;
• and
• second monitoring circuitry to:
• monitor for receipt of a response to the first request after the second request has been sent to the second compute platform;
• detect the response to the first request after the second request has been sent to the second compute platform, the response to indicate execution of the service by the first compute platform has completed;
• and
• discard the response.

At least one non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause a network controller to at least:

• cause a request to be sent to a second compute platform to execute a service after detection of a failure condition associated with execution of the service by a first compute platform;
• after the request has been sent to the second compute platform, monitor for receipt of an indication that execution of the service by the first compute platform has completed;
• detect the indication after the request has been sent to the second compute platform;
• and
• discard the indication.