Provisioning of containers for virtualized applications

A computer-implemented method including executing, by at least one processor of a computing device, instructions to implement the method, the instructions being recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the method comprising:

• receiving a request to provision a plurality of containers of an application across a plurality of data center hosts;
• identifying, from the plurality of containers, a first container to provision based on, at least, a computing resource to be used to implement the first container and network requirements between the first container and the computing resource;
• selecting a first host from the plurality of data center hosts to implement the first container based, at least, on compute requirements of the first container, network requirements of the first container, configuration of the plurality of data center hosts, and performance metrics of the plurality of data center hosts;
• identifying, from the plurality of containers, a second container to provision based on, at least, network requirements between the second container and the first container;
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• selecting a second host from the plurality of data center hosts to implement the second container based on, at least, compute requirements of the second container, network requirements between the first container and the second container, security requirements of the second container, scaling requirements of the second container, affinity requirements between the first container and the second container, availability requirements of the second container, the configuration of the plurality of data center hosts, and the performance metrics of the plurality of data center hosts.

A computer-implemented method including executing, by at least one processor of a computing device, instructions to implement the method, the instructions being recorded on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the method comprising:

• receiving a request to provision an application having an N number of containers across a plurality of data center hosts;
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• determining respective placements for the N number of containers of the application in the plurality of data center hosts, until the respective placements for the N number of containers are determined, iteratively by:
• selecting, for placement, a container from unplaced containers of the N number of containers, the selecting being based on one of a locality constraint and an association with previously-placed containers of the N number of containers;
• identifying a set of data center hosts from the plurality of data center hosts based on compute requirements of the selected container and network requirements of the selected container;
• assigning a respective score to each of the data center hosts of the set of data center hosts based on one or more scoring weights for the selected container, configuration of the plurality of data center hosts, and performance metrics for the data center hosts of the identified set of data center hosts;
• selecting, based on the respective scores, a host from the set of data center hosts for placement of the selected container;
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• updating a container configuration table with provisioning information for the selected container, the provisioning information including the selected host and one or more logical network paths for the selected container;
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• provisioning the N number of containers on the plurality of data center hosts based on the container configuration table.