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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2018
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
James S. Watt, Austin, TX (US);
Rene Herrero, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a software-defined load balancer in a software-defined networking (SDN) application platform from a given one of a plurality of client devices, a request for access to a given application hosted in the SDN application platform. The method also includes obtaining, from a routing database, a set of contextual routing rules for directing requests to the given application to two or more different versions of the given application hosted in the SDN application platform. The method further includes analyzing the request to determine application context information, selecting one of the two or more different versions of the given application to serve the request utilizing the application context information and the set of contextual routing rules, and providing the given client device with access to the selected version of the given application hosted in the software-defined networking application platform in response to the request.