Patent ID: 11902245
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of sending data in a network comprising a worker node, the worker node executing one or more sets of containers and a virtual switch, the virtual switch comprising a gateway interface, a virtual local area network (VLAN) tunnel interface, and a set of virtual Ethernet interfaces associated with the set of one or more sets of containers, the method comprising:
configuring the gateway interface of the worker node to associate the gateway interface with a plurality of subnets, wherein each subnet is associated with a namespace, and the worker node executes at least (i) first and second sets of containers of a first namespace, and (ii) a third set of containers of a second namespace;
sending data between the first and second sets of containers through a first virtual Ethernet interface associated with the first set of containers and a second virtual Ethernet interface associated with the second set of containers;
sending data between the first set of containers and the third set of containers through the first virtual Ethernet interface associated with the first set of containers, the gateway interface, and a third virtual Ethernet interface associated with the third set of containers, wherein the worker node executes on a host computer; and
sending data between the first set of containers and a compute worker node external to the host computer through (i) the first virtual Ethernet interface associated with the first set of containers, (ii) the gateway interface, and (iii) a NIC (network interface card) of the host computer.