Sla-driven orchestration of software containers

An apparatus for controlling a plurality of working nodes on which applications providing services are running, said apparatus comprising a network orchestration unit, a detection and prediction unit and a migration handling unit, wherein:

• said network orchestration unit is configured to monitor said plurality of working nodes and configure network resources for said plurality of working nodes;
• said detection and prediction unit is configured to detect or predict a Service Level Agreement, SLA, violation at a target node comprised in said plurality of working nodes;
• and
• said migration handling unit is configured to trigger migration of a target service provided by a target application running on said target node to a destination node, in a case where a time to violation related to said predicted or detected SLA violation is less than a duration of a migration sensitive window related to said migration.

A method, carried out by an apparatus for controlling a plurality of working nodes on which applications providing services are running, said apparatus comprising a network orchestration unit, a detection and prediction unit and a migration handling unit, wherein the method comprises:

• monitoring, by said network orchestration unit, said plurality of working nodes and configure network resources for said plurality of working nodes;
• detecting or predicting, by said detection and prediction unit, a Service Level Agreement, SLA, violation at a target node comprised in said plurality of working nodes;
• and
• triggering, by said migration handling unit, migration of a target service provided by a target application running on said target node to a destination node, in a case where a time to violation related to said predicted or detected SLA violation is less than a duration of a migration sensitive window related to said migration.