International Business Machines Corporation

Guang Ya Liu

Dong Hai Yu

Guang Han Sui

Xu Zhao

Long Long Cao

Xun Pan

Ming Zhao

Hui Chen

Peng Li

Hai Hui Wang

Xiang Zhen Gan

Qing Feng Hao

Qing Yin

Yi Li Wang

Hou Gang Liu

Sandeep R Patil

Sasikanth Eda

Xiao Liang Hu

Duane Mark Baldwin

Peng Xa Cui

Jin Chi Jc He

Yu Xing Yx Ren

Yu Xing Y X Ren

Jin Chi J C He

Shi Chuang Ren

Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: identifying, in an environment that includes a plurality of edge clusters of edge nodes, a first edge cluster having a resource gap; broadcasting a resource requirement of the first edge cluster to other edge clusters in the plurality; obtaining resource commitments from one or more of the other edge clusters; selecting edge cluster resources from the one or more of the other edge clusters based, at least in part, on the resource commitments; and creating a new cluster including the first edge cluster and the selected edge cluster resources.

Dynamic clustering of edge cluster resources

Provisioning an orchestration platform is provided. A pre-application programming interface (API) server hook is used to preprocess a request to generate a custom resource in the orchestration platform. The pre-API server hook generates a custom resource definition corresponding to the custom resource and generates the custom resource based on the custom resource definition. A custom resource definition generation event is monitored for, using a custom resource definition (CRD) meta-controller, to manage a custom resource definition controller corresponding to the custom resource definition. The CRD meta-controller retrieves the custom resource definition controller from a CRD controller configuration repository to deploy the custom resource definition controller on a worker node in the orchestration platform. Data is distributed, using a data partition proxy, to the custom resource definition controller running the custom resource on the worker node to ensure that no overlapping of data processing tasks exists in the orchestration platform.

Event-driven provisioning of an elastic orchestration platform

A processor may receive a composable deployer comma-separated values (CSV) file. The processor may parse the composable deployer CSV file. The processor may determine if there is a composable deployer foundation template. The processor may install a resource. The resource to install may be associated with the composable deployer foundation template.

Composable deployer architecture

In an approach for classifying and storing multiple layers of a file system as platform-dependent and platform-independent layers, a processor generates an initial layer of a file system. The initial layer is a platform-dependent base layer. A processor assigns one or more files associated with the initial layer with a first group identification as a first same group in a file registry for a plurality of platforms. A processor generates a new layer based on the initial layer into the file system. A processor, in response to the new layer being platform-independent, marks the new layer as platform-independent in the file registry. A processor pushes the new layer into the file registry for one of the plurality of platforms. A processor distributes one or more corresponding files from the file registry per a client request to access the file system.

Classifying and storing multiple layers of a file system

An approach to managing images in a registry constructed as a multi-layer file system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a first request for downloading a first image, the first request comprising a download policy. The method also comprises obtaining a plurality of compositions of layers of the first image, wherein content of layers specified by each composition of layers collectively constitute content of the first image. The method also comprises selecting a composition of layers from the plurality of compositions of layers of the first image based on the download policy. The method also comprises sending content of layers specified by the selected composition of layers.

Registry image management

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to application deployment in a multi-cluster environment. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. According to the method, first information about a resource requirement of an application is sent to a plurality of managed computing clusters. A plurality of predicted deployment results are received from the plurality of managed computing clusters, which indicate whether the application is to be partially or fully and successfully deployed on the plurality of managed computing clusters. In accordance with a determination, from the plurality of predicted deployment results, that a plurality of functions of the application fail to be deployed on a single managed computing cluster, at least two managed computing clusters are selected from the plurality of managed computing clusters and the application is deployed on the at least two managed computing clusters. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.

Application deployment in a multi-cluster environment

Systems, methods and computer program products dynamically configuring architecture of high-availability computing environments to maximize uptime of the high-availability systems and minimizing the down time of the computing environment fulfilling incoming connections, requests and data transfers. Embodiments dynamically configure arbitrary systems of the high availability computing environments, including network nodes, virtual machines, containerized systems, managed clusters thereof, agents, and application components, using a lightweight and portable HA controller plugin. The HA controller plugin installs controller components, data migration logic, synchronizes data and configurations of the computing environment on any nodes promoted to controllers with lead HA controllers elected by system administrators. As existing primary or secondary controllers experience failovers, existing components and nodes of the environment can be quickly promoted to operate as controllers via the controller plugin, ensuring redundant controllers are available to takeover and direct incoming network traffic, while minimizing or eliminating downtime due to controller failover.

Dynamic high-availability architecture

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to dynamic initiation of services. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. According to the method, it is detected whether a first service of a plurality of services is requested in a computing environment. The plurality of services support execution of different types of tasks of a function. In response to detecting that the first service is requested, a second service in the plurality of services that depends on the first service is determined based on a dependency relationship between the plurality of services. At least one instance of the second service is initiated in the computing environment before the second service is requested. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.

Dynamic initiation of services

The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a computer-implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for distributing data on multiple servers to multiple nodes in a cluster. In the method, each of M servers is instructed to divide data thereon into N data segments. M and N are integers greater than one. The M servers are instructed to send N&#xd7;M data segments on the M servers to N nodes in a cluster concurrently. For each of the M servers, the N data segments are sent respectively to the N nodes. When any given node in the cluster receives a data piece of a data segment from a server of the M servers, the given node is instructed to transmit the received data piece to remaining nodes in the cluster other than the given node.

Distribution from multiple servers to multiple nodes

Provided is a system and method for increasing file transmission speed of a server, and a method for replicating a data object over a plurality of nodes. The system includes a server communicatively coupled to a plurality of nodes. The server may detect a plurality of nodes. The server may determine that a data object stored by the server is to be replicated to the plurality of nodes. The server may divide the data object into a plurality of data pieces. The server may send a different data piece to each node of the plurality of nodes. Each node may receive the different data piece from the server. Each node may send a copy of the received data piece to all other nodes. Each node may receive copies of all other data pieces from the other nodes. Each node may replicate a full copy of the data object.

Method for increasing file transmission speed

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer-implemented method, wherein the computer is operable between a management server and at least one cloud server providing a cloud service, the method comprising: collecting management data related to the cloud service through a standard protocol for network management, wherein the standard protocol allows communication of the management data via a designated port; and sending at least part of the management data to the management server.

Contextualized analytics platform

Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods and systems for object storage. Migration policies and an algorithm applied by the module facilitates the migration of files (i.e., object replicas or erasure code fragments) from one storage to another storage. The FILE_HEAT is monitored over a period of time. If the FILE_HEAT of a file increases over a period of time relative to the other files, the file is migrated to a higher level storage. Files can be migrated to a higher level storage even if the FILE_HEAT of a file decreases over a period of time.

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