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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Venkata S. Amulothu, Plano, TX (US);
Ashish Kapur, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vishal Shukla, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for facilitating a software-defined networking (SDN) communication in a container-based networked computing environment. In an embodiment, a SDN policy agent is created in the container-based networked computing environment. This SDN policy agent is created as a container virtual machine (VM) in the container-based networked computing environment. When a request is made by a VM to establish a SDN connection with the SDN controller for the server, the SDN controller forwards the request to the SDN policy agent. The SDN policy agent is responsible for determining whether the VM is eligible to establish the connection. If the SDN policy agent determines that the VM is eligible, the VM is allowed to become part of the SDN network.