Cloud-native workload optimization

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• receiving flow data associated with communications between workloads that are running on resources of an orchestration system for hosting containerized microservices applications;
• determining, based at least in part on the flow data, that a rate in which a first workload communicates with a second workload is greater than a relative rate in which the first workload communicates with a third workload;
• based at least in part on the rate being greater than the relative rate, determining that enhancing a network performance characteristic between the first workload and the second workload by at least one of a redeployment of the first workload to a new host of the orchestration system or a network path rerouting between the first workload and the second workload would not adversely affect network performance characteristics between the first workload and the third workload;
• and
• causing the at least one of the redeployment of the first workload to the new host of the orchestration system or the network path rerouting between the first workload and the second workload to enhance the network performance characteristic between the first workload and the second workload.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• receiving flow data associated with communications between workloads that are running on resources of an orchestration system for hosting containerized microservices applications;
• determining, based at least in part on the flow data, that a rate in which a first workload running on a first node of the orchestration system communicates with a second workload running on a second node of the orchestration system is greater than a relative rate in which the first workload communicates with other workloads;
• based at least in part on the rate being greater than the relative rate, determining that enhancing a network performance characteristic between the first workload and the second workload by reducing a proximity between the first workload and the second workload would not adversely affect network performance characteristics between the first workload and the other workloads;
• causing a redeployment of the first workload to run on at least one of the second node or a third node of the orchestration system to enhance the network performance characteristic between the first workload and the second workload by reducing the proximity between the first workload and the second workload, wherein the third node is closer in proximity to the second node than the first node.