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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Sunil Cherukuri, Cary, NC (US);
Xiao Hu Gao, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Alexander B. Altman, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment includes identifying a common file associated with a first software container deployed on a host; adding a single copy of the common file to a common file pool maintained by the host, removing the common file from the first container and replacing it with a pointer to the copy of the common file in the shared file pool, and removing the common file from the first container and replacing it with a pointer to the copy of the common file in the shared file pool; identifying at least one unique file associated with the first container; and moving the unique file to the common file pool maintained by the host and removing the unique file from the first container and replacing it with a pointer to the copy of the unique file in the shared file pool.