Patent ID: 11941453
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A computer system for allocating images to nodes of a containerized computing environment, comprising:
one or more processors;
a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
a set of computer program instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
obtaining metadata associated with a plurality of images, wherein metadata associated with an image comprises information indicating the layers of that image;
analyzing the obtained metadata to identify images of the plurality of images that share one or more layers; and
allocating the identified images to the same, target node of a containerized computing environment, wherein the allocating comprises responsive to determining no node is already allocated an image comprising at least one of the one or more layers shared by the identified images:
analyzing a workload of each node of the containerized computing environment to identify an empty node; and
responsive to identifying the empty node, defining the identified empty node as the target node to which the identified images are to be allocated.