ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,567, issued on April 7, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"High availability control plane node for container-based clusters" was invented by Pradeep Shanmukha Jigalur (Hubli, India) and Christopher John Schaefer (Venice, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for providing a high availability control plane in a container-based cluster. The method generally includes determining a first control plane node is unreachable within a cluster; in response to determining the first control plane node is unreachable, activating a second control plane node previously deployed in the cluster, wherein ...