Failover handling for pods executing an application in a high availability mode

A method for handling failover of pods executing an application in a high-availability mode, the method comprising:

• generating pod information identifying the pods, wherein the pod information includes unique application identifiers respectively assigned to the pods to differentiate between the pods and active-standby indicators respectively indicating which of the pods are active or on standby;
• transmitting the pod information to a service manager coordinating service objects, wherein the service manager configures a different service object of the service objects to respectively correspond to each of the pods;
• in response to detecting a failure of a first pod of the pods that was active and assigned a first application identifier of the unique application identifiers, generating updated pod information including updating an active-standby indicator of a second pod of the pods to indicate the second pod is now active and reassigning the first application identifier to the second pod;
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• transmitting the updated pod information to the service manager, wherein, in response to receiving the updated pod information, the service manager reconfigures a service object, of the service objects, assigned to the first pod to instead be assigned to the second pod.

A method for handling failover for pods executing an application in a high availability mode, the method comprising:

• assigning, by the application, unique application identifiers to respective pods executing instances of the application, the unique application identifiers being used to differentiate between the pods;
• maintaining, by a service manager, a one-to-one correspondence between service objects and the unique application identifiers, such that each service object corresponds to a pod associated with a respective unique application identifier;
• detecting, by the application, a failure of a first pod associated with a first unique application identifier;
• assigning, by the application, the first unique application identifier to a second pod to replace the first pod after the failure;
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• updating, by the service manager, correspondence between the service objects and the pods so that a service object corresponding to the first unique application identifier is associated with the second pod.