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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2023
Anyscale, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas Desrosiers, Berkeley, CA (US);
Philipp Moritz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hsuan-Chi Kuo, San Lorenzo, CA (US);
Lanbo Chen, Burlingame, CA (US);
Anyscale, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, device, and system for starting containers is provided. The method includes (i) in response to determining to start a container, determining whether a container layer for the container has been previously converted to a block storage format; (ii) in response to determining that the container layer has not been previously converted to a block storage format, downloading an archived version of the container layer, converting the archived version into a block storage format version of the container layer, storing the block storage format version of the container layer into a blob storage, and starting the container; and (iii) in response to determining that the container layer has been previously converted to a block storage format, starting the container based at least in part on the block storage format version.