Namespace management techniques for facilitating multi-cluster application development

US11907905B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VMware LLC · US

Inventors

• Long Zhou · Shanghai, CN
• Fabio Yeon · Mill Creek, US
• Kyoung Won Kwon · Bellevue, US
• Pranav Sandeep Vaidya · Bellevue, US
• Dhanashree Hemachandra Adhikari · Bothell, US
• Eryn Muetzel · Seattle, US
• Suresh Chellappan · Bothell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 2020
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2024
• Expiry date: May 4, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L63/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for managing namespaces in a multi-cluster management (MCM) system to facilitate multi-cluster application development are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system executing the MCM system can create a workspace for an application being developed by a software development team of an organization, where the workspace is a logical grouping of namespaces on which the application has been or will be deployed, and where at least a subset of the namespaces can belong to different clusters of the organization. The computer system can then assign a member of the development team as a workspace administrator of the workspace, thereby enabling that development team member to perform management tasks on the workspace and its member namespaces via the MCM system (e.g., creating and adding namespaces to the workspace, setting access/image/network policies on the workspace, etc.), without help from the organization's IT staff.