US 12,323,323 B1
Conveying contextual information across clusters
Etai Lev Ran, Nofit (IL); and Dean Har'el Lorenz, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/528,483.
Int. Cl. H04L 45/00 (2022.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 45/46 (2013.01) [H04L 12/4633 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a tunnel request at a service cluster from a client at a remote cluster, the tunnel request including metadata associated with the client at the remote cluster;
using the metadata to establish a surrogate pod at the service cluster that replicates the client at the remote cluster;
returning a tunnel identifier corresponding to the established surrogate pod to the remote cluster; and
in response to receiving a service request that includes the tunnel identifier, causing the service request to be directed to the surrogate pod.