US 12,182,566 B1 · Automated software container rehydration and deployment

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses for automated software container rehydration and deployment include a server that updates a container image for a software application by modifying layers of the container image and deploying the updated container image as a first container in a passive production environment. For a plurality of traffic volumes, the server: a) increases application traffic directed to the first container to a first traffic volume, b) monitors service level indicators associated with performance of the first container, c) increases the application traffic directed to the first container to a higher traffic volume upon determining that the service level indicators are within a performance threshold, and d) repeats steps b) and c) until the application traffic is increased to a highest traffic volume and the service level indicators are within the performance threshold. The server deploys the updated container image as a second container in an active production environment.

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Dependent claims

A system for automated software container rehydration and deployment, the system comprising a server computing device having a memory for storing computer-executable instructions and a processor that executes the computer-executable instructions to:

update a container image for a software application by modifying one or more layers of the container image;
deploy the updated container image as a first container in a passive production computing environment;
for a plurality of traffic volumes:
a) increase application traffic directed to the first container to a first traffic volume,
b) monitor one or more service level indicators associated with performance of the first container,
c) increase the application traffic directed to the first container to a higher traffic volume upon determining that the service level indicators are within a performance target threshold, and
d) repeat steps b) and c) until the application traffic is increased to a highest traffic volume and the service level indicators are within the performance target threshold;
and
deploy the updated container image as a second container in an active production computing environment that is coupled to the passive production computing environment.

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A computerized method of automated software container rehydration and deployment, the method comprising:

updating, by a server computing device, a container image for a software application by modifying one or more layers of the container image;
deploying, by the server computing device, the updated container image as a first container in a passive production computing environment;
for a plurality of traffic volumes:
a) increasing, by the server computing device, the application traffic directed to the first container to a first traffic volume,
b) monitoring, by the server computing device, the one or more service level indicators associated with performance of the first container,
c) increasing, by the server computing device, the application traffic directed to the first container to a higher traffic volume upon determining that the service level indicators are within a performance target threshold, and
d) repeating, by the server computing device, steps b) and c) until the application traffic is increased to a highest traffic volume and the service level indicators are within the performance target threshold;
and
deploying, by the server computing device, the updated container image as a second container in an active production computing environment that is coupled to the passive production computing environment.

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