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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2023
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jianjun Shen, Redwood City, CA (US);
Zhengsheng Zhou, Beijing, CN;
Yves Fauser, Munich, DE;
Satya Jain, Bangalore, IN;
Snehal Shankar More, Pune, IN;
Indresh Mishra, Pune, IN;
Wenfeng Liu, Beijing, CN;
Donghai Han, Beijing, CN;
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Policies are defined for a container cluster that is configured by a first software defined network (SDN) controller cluster. A second SDN controller cluster for defining service policies that are not defined by the first SDN controller cluster receives, from a set of one or more adapters deployed in the container cluster for the second SDN controller cluster, resource identifiers for several resources of the container cluster. The second SDN controller cluster uses the resource identifiers to define a set of service policies. Then, the second SDN controller cluster distributes the set of service policies to a set of network elements to enforce the set of service policies on data messages associated with machines deployed in the container cluster configured by the first SDN controller cluster.