Mechanism for managing bare-metal containerized applications from an embedded hypervisor

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• at least one memory, the one or more processors and the at least one memory configured to;
• boot a device with an operating system;
• power on a first hypervisor as a first user process running on the operating system;
• power on a container engine as a second user process running on the operating system;
• boot a virtual machine (VM) running a second hypervisor, wherein the VM is running on the first hypervisor, wherein the second hypervisor is an embedded hypervisor configured to provide resources for a control plane;
• in response to booting the VM;
• automatically obtain, by the VM, one or more intended state configuration files defining a control plane configuration for providing services for at least deploying and managing a containerized application and application configuration parameters for the containerized application;
• deploy, on the VM, a control plane pod configured according to the control plane configuration;
• deploy one or more containers based on the control plane configuration, wherein the one or more containers are deployed on the operating system via the container engine;
• deploy the containerized application identified by the application configuration parameters on the one or more containers;
• deploy, on the VM, an infrastructure controller configured to manage a state of the control plane;
• and
• deploy, on the VM, a runtime controller for the one or more containers configured to manage a state of the one or more containers running the containerized application, wherein the infrastructure controller is deployed in the control plane, the runtime controller is deployed in an extension plane, and the control plane and the extension plane are logically separated planes.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for automatically deploying a containerized application on an operating system of a device, the operations comprising:

• booting the device with the operating system;
• powering on a first hypervisor as a first user process running on the operating system;
• powering on a container engine as a second user process running on the operating system;
• booting a virtual machine (VM) running a second hypervisor, wherein the VM is running on the first hypervisor, wherein the second hypervisor is an embedded hypervisor configured to provide resources for a control plane;
• in response to booting the VM;
• automatically obtaining, by the VM, one or more intended state configuration files defining a control plane configuration for providing services for at least deploying and managing the containerized application and application configuration parameters for the containerized application;
• deploying, on the VM, a control plane pod configured according to the control plane configuration;
• deploying one or more containers based on the control plane configuration, wherein the one or more containers are deployed on the operating system via the container engine;
• deploying the containerized application identified by the application configuration parameters on the one or more containers;
• deploying, on the VM, an infrastructure controller configured to manage a state of the control plane;
• and
• deploying, on the VM, a runtime controller for the one or more containers configured to manage a state of the one or more containers running the containerized application, wherein the infrastructure controller is deployed in the control plane, the runtime controller is deployed in an extension plane, and the control plane and the extension plane are logically separated planes.