Patent ID: 11915031
Assignee: EXOSTELLAR, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for instantiating and transparently migrating executing containerized processes, the method comprising:
receiving, by a container engine executing on a first machine, an instruction to instantiate a container image on the first machine;
transmitting, by the container engine, to a modified container runtime process, executing on the first machine, the instruction to instantiate the container image on the first machine;
generating, by the modified container runtime process, on the first machine, a shim process representing the instantiated container image;
forwarding, by the shim process, the instruction, to an agent executing on a second machine, via a proxy connected to the agent via a network connection;
directing, by the agent, instantiation of the container image as a containerized process;
determining, by a scheduler component executing on the first machine, to migrate the containerized process to a third machine; and
directing, by the scheduler component, migration of the containerized process to the third machine, during execution of the containerized process.