International Business Machines Corporation

Jason Hughes

Lee Jason Sanders

Miles Mulholland

Keira Louise Hopkins

Adam Michael Farley

Method and system are provided for storage allocation enhancement of microservices. A method carried out at a microservice orchestrator, includes: categorizing a microservice container, wherein the categorization defines a predicted storage behavior of the microservice container input/output operations; and providing the categorization in association with the microservice container input/output operations to a storage system for use in storage allocation of the input/output operations. A method at a storage controller includes: receiving microservice container input/output operations with an associated categorization, wherein the categorization defines a predicted storage behavior of the microservice container input/output operations; and using the associated categorization for optimizing storage allocation for the input/output operations and/or optimizing garbage collection performance.

Storage allocation enhancement of microservices

Method and system are provided for storage allocation enhancement of microservices. A method carried out at a microservice orchestrator, includes: identifying distinct phases of a run of a microservice container; categorizing the phases of a run of a microservice container, wherein the categorization defines a predicted storage behavior of the microservice container input/output operations in the phase of the microservice container; and providing the categorization in association with the microservice container input/output operations in the phase to a storage system for use in storage allocation of the input/output operations.

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