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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2022
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Senthilnathan Natarajan, Bangalore, IN;
Praveen Jayachandran, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for distributed scheduling in container orchestration engines are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes: configuring a plurality of entities of a container-based computing environment to perform a distributed scoring process, wherein, for a given one of the entities, the distributed scoring process comprises: (i) obtaining information corresponding to a plurality of workloads from a database that is accessible to the other entities, (ii) generating, based on the information, respective scores for at least a portion of the plurality of workloads, and (iii) publishing the generated scores to the database; and selecting, by a centralized scheduler of the container-based computing environment, at least one of the entities to host at least a given one of workloads based at least in part on the generated scores in the database.