Patent ID: 11953972
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A computer program product for selective privileged container augmentation, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method of:
selecting, by the computer, a target group of edge devices from a plurality of available edge devices to run a plurality of child tasks comprising a pending task by mapping edge device tag attributes of the plurality of available edge devices to child task tag attributes of the plurality of child tasks;
installing, by the computer, a privileged container corresponding to the pending task in each respective edge device of the target group of edge devices to monitor execution of a child task by an application container in a given edge device of the target group of edge devices;
adding, by the computer, a privileged container installation tag that corresponds to the privileged container to an edge device tag attribute of each respective edge device of the target group of edge devices having the privileged container installed; and
sending, by the computer, a given child task of the plurality of child tasks comprising the pending task to a selected edge device in the target group of edge devices to run the given child task.