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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Guang Han Sui, Beijing, CN;
Jin Chi JC He, Xi'an, CN;
Peng Hui Jiang, Beijing, CN;
Jun Su, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Reusing containers is provided. It is communicated to a pipeline workload manager that a particular container has finished running a step of a pipeline workload using an agent daemon of the particular container. Pipeline workload information corresponding to the pipeline workload is checked using the pipeline workload manager to determine whether the particular container can be reused to run a particular step in a different pipeline workload. The particular container is provided to be reused to run the particular step in the different pipeline workload without having to perform a prepare container environment sub-step of that particular step based on determining that the particular container can be reused to run that particular step in the different pipeline workload according to the pipeline workload information.