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

Claim 10:
11. A computer system for selective privileged container augmentation, the computer system comprising:
a bus system;
a storage device connected to the bus system, wherein the storage device stores program instructions; and
a processor connected to the bus system, wherein the processor executes the program instructions to:
select 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;
install 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;
add 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
send 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.