Deferred path resolution during container deployment

US11775475B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Amber Tianqi Guo · Bellevue, US
• Benjamin M. Schultz · Bellevue, US
• Frederick J. Smith · Redmond, US
• Axel Rietschin · Sammamish, US
• Hari R. Pulapaka · Redmond, US
• Mehmet Iyigun · Kirkland, US
• Jonathan De Marco · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2019
• Grant date: Oct 3, 2023
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2009/45579
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques of deferred container deployment are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a computing device, a container image corresponding to the container. The container image includes a first set of files identified by symbolic links individually directed to a file in the host filesystem on the computing device and a second set of files identified by hard links. The method also includes in response to receiving the container image, at the computing device, storing the received container image in a folder of the host filesystem on the computing device without resolving the symbolic links of the first set of the files until runtime of the requested container.