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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
May. 23, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Xiao Ling Chen, Beijing, CN;
Juliet Candee, Brewster, NY (US);
Heng Wang, Beijing, CN;
Qi Ye, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Automatic redeploying/upgrade of containers on multiple nodes using an Automated Deployment Software (ADS) having an Automated Deployment Tool (ADT) includes updating the ADS with a planned patch of a target layer, introducing a patchname sync command into the ADT to introduce a required patch type/specific patch and redeploy the containers, updating the ADT with a Producer Module (PM) and a Consumer Module (CM), running the ADT to cause the PM to update an image manifest item attribute, and push the image manifest item/new layer to a repository and running the ADT to cause the CM to read the image manifest item, identify and pull the unimpacted layers, and performing at least one of deploying/upgrading an application, or waiting for an available patch fix and deploying/upgrading the application.