US 2020/0348984 A1 · CONTROL CLUSTER FOR MULTI-CLUSTER CONTAINER ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

The disclosure herein describes managing multiple clusters within a container environment using a control cluster. The control cluster includes a single deployment model that manages deployment of cluster components to a plurality of clusters at the cluster level. Changes or updates made to one cluster are automatically propagated to other clusters in the same environment, reducing system update time across clusters. The control cluster aggregates and/or stores monitoring data for the plurality of clusters creating a centralized data store for metrics data, log data and other systems data. The monitoring data and/or alerts are displayed on a unified dashboard via a user interface. The unified dashboard creates a single representation of clusters and monitor data in a single location providing system health data and unified alerts notifying a user as to issues detected across multiple clusters.

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Dependent claims

A system managing multiple clusters by a control cluster within a container environment, the system comprising:

at least one processor;
and
at least one memory comprising computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, implement a cluster manager component associated with a control cluster at a cluster layer within the container environment, to cause the at least one processor to:
deploy, by the cluster manager component, one or more workloads to one or more clusters within a plurality of clusters associated with the container environment;
receive, by the cluster manager component, monitor data from two or more clusters within the plurality of clusters for aggregation within a data store associated with the control cluster, the monitor data comprising at least one of metrics data and log data associated with the two or more clusters within the plurality of clusters;
and
display, by a user interface device, at least one of the monitor data and a set of alerts associated with the two or more clusters in the plurality of clusters on a unified dashboard, the set of alerts identifying multi-cluster status updates based on the monitor data.

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A computerized method for managing multiple clusters by a control cluster within a container environment, the method comprising:

deploying, by a cluster manager component on a control cluster, one or more workloads to one or more clusters within a plurality of clusters associated with the container environment;
receiving, by the cluster manager component, monitor data from two or more clusters for aggregation within a data store associated with the control cluster, the monitor data comprising at least one of metrics data and log data associated with the two or more clusters within the plurality of clusters;
and
displaying at least one of the monitor data and a set of alerts associated with the two or more clusters in the plurality of clusters on a unified dashboard, the set of alerts identifying multi-cluster status updates based on the monitor data.

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One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media having computer-executable instructions for managing multiple clusters by a control cluster within a container environment that, upon execution by a processor, cause the processor to at least:

deploy, by a cluster manager component, one or more workloads to one or more clusters within a plurality of clusters associated with the container environment;
receive, by the cluster manager component, monitor data from two or more clusters for aggregation within a data store associated with the control cluster, the monitor data comprising at least one of metrics data and log data associated with the two or more clusters within the plurality of clusters;
and
display, by a user interface device, at least one of the monitor data and a set of alerts associated with the two or more clusters in the plurality of clusters on a unified dashboard, the set of alerts identifying multi-cluster status updates based on the monitor data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Control cluster for multi-cluster container environments

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Control cluster for multi-cluster container environments

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Abstract

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