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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2022
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaopei Liu, Beijing, CN;
Zhengsheng Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Wenfeng Liu, Beijing, CN;
Donghai Han, Beijing, CN;
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for electing a leader in a computing system is provided. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a computing resource for multiple container groups that each include one or more containers. A determination is made, from applications running in containers of the container groups, of multiple election candidate applications. Each election candidate application has an instance deployed in a corresponding container in each container group. For each container group, an election runner process is established within the container group. For each instance of each of the election candidate applications, a corresponding election watcher process is established. A communication link is established between the election runner process and each election watcher process. A request for leader election is transmitted from the election runner process to the computing resource. A response received from the computing resource. The response is transmitted to each election watcher process via the communication link.