US 2026/0303445 A1 · INITIALIZING A CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

Techniques are described for creating a container environment that implements direct communications between pods. This includes the creation of a management component (such as a control plane) of the container environment, the creation of nodes within an implementation component (such as a data plane) of the container environment, and the attaching of virtualized network interface cards (VNICs) to each node. This also includes creating a custom resource for each node, where the custom resource stores internet protocol (IP) addresses assigned to the node and stored within the VNICs for the node. Pods implemented within these nodes obtain an IP address from the VNICs for their respective node and communicate with each other utilizing the IP addresses via virtual communication devices and the VNICs.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by an application programming interface (API) executed by a computer system, a request for creation of a new cluster with native pod networking within a container environment
writing, by the API, a work request for the new cluster to a work request database;
identifying, by a management plane reconcile cluster of the computer system, the work request within the work request database;
assigning, by the management plane reconcile cluster, a worker instance to the work request;
creating, by the worker instance, the new cluster;
including, by the worker instance, one or more native pod networking flags within the new cluster;
and
installing, by the worker instance, a plurality of components into the new cluster to implement the native pod networking.

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A computer system, comprising:

one or more memories configured to store computer-executable instructions;
and
one or more processors configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to at least:
receive, by an application programming interface (API) executed by the computer system, a request for creation of a new cluster with native pod networking within a container environment
write, by the API, a work request for the new cluster to a work request database;
identify, by a management plane reconcile cluster of the computer system, the work request within the work request database;
assign, by the management plane reconcile cluster, a worker instance to the work request;
create, by the worker instance, the new cluster;
include, by the worker instance, one or more native pod networking flags within the new cluster;
and
install, by the worker instance, a plurality of components into the new cluster to implement the native pod networking.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, that when executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by an application programming interface (API) executed by the computer system, a request for creation of a new cluster with native pod networking within a container environment
writing, by the API, a work request for the new cluster to a work request database;
identifying, by a management plane reconcile cluster of the computer system, the work request within the work request database;
assigning, by the management plane reconcile cluster, a worker instance to the work request;
creating, by the worker instance, the new cluster;
including, by the worker instance, one or more native pod networking flags within the new cluster;
and
installing, by the worker instance, a plurality of components into the new cluster to implement the native pod networking.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Initializing a container environment

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Initializing a container environment

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