Patent ID: 11972283
Assignee: VMWARE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method of application orchestration in a virtualized computing system including a host cluster having a virtualization layer directly executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including native VM executing on the virtualization layer, the native VM including an application executing on a guest operating system, the virtualization layer integrated with an orchestration control plane, the method comprising:
receiving decoupled information at a management agent from a master server of the orchestration control plane through a native VM controller, the management agent executing in the native VM and as an agent of the native VM controller, the native VM controller executing in the virtualization layer; and
providing the decoupled information for consumption by the application executing in the native VM, the decoupled information including at least one of configuration information and secret information.