Hybrid VM-Container Cluster Management for Legacy App Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cloud-computing environments face challenges in managing both virtual machines and containers due to the impossibility of replacing all virtual machine infrastructures with container infrastructures, especially for applications with specific kernel requirements or complex structures, necessitating a platform that can integrate both.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for integrated management of virtual machines and containers in a cloud-computing environment, utilizing one or more processors and memory to manage network connections, authentication, resource allocation, and cluster configurations, with a VM-container integration controller to facilitate seamless operation and management across nodes and clusters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If virtual machine infrastructures are replaced with container infrastructures, then resource efficiency and management simplicity are improved, but applications with specific kernel requirements or complex structures cannot be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges virtual machine and container infrastructures into a unified hybrid platform where both can coexist and be managed together. The system integrates VM-based applications and container-based applications on the same infrastructure, allowing resource efficiency benefits of containers while maintaining compatibility with legacy VM applications through the hybrid architecture.
2Reliability
If both virtual machines and containers are managed separately, then each infrastructure can be optimized independently, but management complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal management interface that can manage both virtual machines and containers through a single system. The hybrid infrastructure platform provides unified resource allocation, monitoring, and control mechanisms that work across both VM and container workloads, eliminating the need for separate management systems while maintaining the ability to optimize each infrastructure type independently through the same management plane.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a hybrid infrastructure with both virtual machines and containers is implemented, then application compatibility is improved, but security isolation and system stability become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the hybrid infrastructure into isolated management domains where virtual machines and containers operate in separate but coordinated environments. Each infrastructure type maintains its own security boundaries and isolation mechanisms while the unified management system coordinates resource allocation and monitoring. This segmentation approach preserves security isolation properties while enabling comprehensive application compatibility through the hybrid architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is an apparatus, method, and storage medium for integrated management of a virtual machine and a container in a cloud-computing environment. The apparatus manages a network connection of clusters formed with nodes in which virtual machines and containers are integrated, executes commands by distributing the commands to connection brokers of the clusters, and monitors connection states, resource states, performance metrics, and network latency of the clusters.