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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Chao Zheng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lukas Rupprecht, San Jose, CA (US);
Vasily Tarasov, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a computer program product for managing contention includes a computer readable storage medium that has program instructions embodied therewith, where the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, and where the program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method including incrementing, by the processor, a counter associated with an image in response to a creation of a container instance using the image, comparing, by the processor, the counter to a threshold value, and conditionally replicating the image by the processor, based on the comparing.