System and method for providing software rollouts within a controller-based container orchestration system

A method for providing software rollouts within a controller-based container orchestration system, comprising:

• providing a container orchestration system that provides within one or more container orchestration environments, a runtime for containerized workloads and services operating as a plurality of software stack instances;
• providing a plurality of instance-scoped controllers including, for each software stack instance within the plurality of software stack instances, an instance-scoped controller scoped to the software stack instance and responsible for:
• performing health checks and updates for the software stack instance, and
• updating an instance metadata associated with the health checks and updates for the software stack instance;
• and
• providing a super controller responsible for launching and communicating with the instance-scoped controllers associated with the plurality of software stack instances, including watching the instance metadata for the plurality of software stack instances in current use, and launching an instance-scoped controller for each software stack instance;
• wherein the super controller and instance-scoped controllers allow a desired state of a system to be declared via the instance metadata associated with the plurality of software stack instances, and then operate to realize the desired state.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions thereon, which when read and executed by a computer including one or more processors cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

• providing a container orchestration system that provides within one or more container orchestration environments, a runtime for containerized workloads and services operating as a plurality of software stack instances;
• providing a plurality of instance-scoped controllers including, for each software stack instance within the plurality of software stack instances, an instance-scoped controller scoped to the software stack instance and responsible for:
• performing health checks and updates for the software stack instance, and
• updating an instance metadata associated with the health checks and updates for the software stack instance;
• and
• providing a super controller responsible for launching and communicating with the instance-scoped controllers associated with the plurality of software stack instances, including watching the instance metadata for the plurality of software stack instances in current use, and launching an instance-scoped controller for each software stack instance;
• wherein the super controller and instance-scoped controllers allow a desired state of a system to be declared via the instance metadata associated with the plurality of software stack instances, and then operate to realize the desired state.