Techniques for maintenance-domain-aware virtual machine placement in a cloud platform

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause:

• partitioning a population of compute nodes of a cloud platform into maintenance domains (MDs);
• wherein each compute node in the population of compute nodes belongs to exactly one of the MDs;
• wherein maintenance is performed for the cloud platform using rolling maintenance based on the MDs;
• for a target virtual machine, determining a compute-node on which to place the target virtual machine by:
• for the target virtual machine, determining, for each compute-node in a set of candidate compute nodes, a placement_context score based on a plurality of metrics;
• wherein each metric of the plurality of metrics corresponds to a goal;
• wherein the plurality of metrics includes at least one MD-aware metric;
• and
• selecting a particular compute-node for placement of the target virtual machine based on the placement_context scores determined for the target virtual machine;
• and
• placing the VM on the particular compute-node.