Election of a container for delegation of tasks in a deployment

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for managing operation of a deployment, the operations comprising:

• obtaining, by a first container of a pod hosted by the deployment, a task from a task manager to provide at least one computer implemented service;
• based on the task:
• obtaining, by the first container and from a second container of the pod, at least a policy and an available workload capacity for taking on additional tasks by the second container that are usable to identify whether the task can be performed by the second container;
• making, based on at least the policy and the available workload capacity, a determination regarding whether the task can be performed by the second container;
• in a first instance of the determination where the task can be performed by the second container:
• assigning, to the second container, the task to be performed;
• and
• monitoring, by the first container, performance of the task by the second container to ensure that the at least one computer implemented service is being provided by the performance of the task.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations managing operation of a deployment, the operations comprising:
• obtaining, by a first container of a pod hosted by the deployment, a task from a task manager to provide at least one computer implemented service;
• based on the task:
• obtaining, by the first container and from a second container of the pod, at least a policy and an available workload capacity for taking on additional tasks by the second container that are usable to identify whether the task can be performed by the second container;
• making, based on at least the policy and the available workload capacity, a determination regarding whether the task can be performed by the second container;
• in a first instance of the determination where the task can be performed by the second container:
• assigning, to the second container, the task to be performed;
• and
• monitoring, by the first container, performance of the task by the second container to ensure that the at least one computer implemented service is being provided by the performance of the task.