US 11,907,762 B2 · Resource conservation for containerized systems

Abstract

A method for conserving resources in a distributed system includes receiving an event-criteria list from a resource controller. The event-criteria list includes one or more events watched by the resource controller and the resource controller controls at least one target resource and is configured to respond to events from the event-criteria list that occur. The method also includes determining whether the resource controller is idle. When the resource controller is idle, the method includes terminating the resource controller, determining whether any event from the event-criteria list occurs after terminating the resource controller, and, when at least one event from the event-criteria list occurs after terminating the resource controller, recreating the resource controller.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a distributed computing system, a system metric for computing resources associated with a pod deployment of containerized applications hosted at the distributed computing system, each pod of the pod deployment executing one of the containerized applications, the pod deployment having a deployment size that specifies a number of pods in the pod deployment;
determining whether the system metric satisfies a threshold resource metric, the threshold resource metric indicating a target resource utilization for the pod deployment of containerized applications;
when the system metric fails to satisfy the threshold resource metric, scaling the pod deployment by decreasing the number of pods in the pod deployment based on adjusting the deployment size of the pod deployment;
and
when the system metric satisfies the threshold resource metric, maintaining the deployment size for the pod deployment.

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A system comprising:

data processing hardware;
and
memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware, the memory hardware storing instructions that when executed on the data processing hardware cause the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a distributed computing system, a system metric for computing resources associated with a pod deployment of containerized applications hosted at the distributed computing system, each pod of the pod deployment executing one of the containerized applications, the pod deployment having a deployment size that specifies a number of pods in the pod deployment;
determining whether the system metric satisfies a threshold resource metric, the threshold resource metric indicating a target resource utilization for the pod deployment of containerized applications;
when the system metric fails to satisfy the threshold resource metric, scaling the pod deployment by decreasing the number of pods in the pod deployment based on adjusting the deployment size of the pod deployment;
and
when the system metric satisfies the threshold resource metric, maintaining the deployment size for the pod deployment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Resource conservation for containerized systems

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Resource conservation for containerized systems

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Abstract

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