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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2017
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Manik Surtani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bela Ban, Kreuzlingen, CH;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An example method includes: identifying, by a new node, an address of a shared data store comprising information on a current membership in a peer-to-peer system, wherein the shared data store is shared by a plurality of nodes that are current members of the peer-to-peer system, wherein the shared data store is a container for storing data in a storage cloud; sending, by the new node, a first message comprising an address of the new node to the shared data store; requesting, by the new node, at least one membership data structure from the shared data store; receiving, by the new node, a second message comprising the at least one membership data structure; generating, by the new node, a new membership data structure comprising the address of the new node and the plurality of addresses for the plurality of nodes identified in the at least one membership data structure; sending, by the new node, a third message comprising the new membership data structure to the shared data store; and joining, by the new node, the peer-to-peer system, wherein the joining comprises using the new membership data structure to identify nodes of the plurality of nodes to receive a plurality of messages from the new node.