US 12,379,913 B2
Deployment of container images with separate add-ons
Rui Liu, Beijing (CN); Ying Mo, Beijing (CN); Yue Chen, Beijing (CN); Ya Xiao, Beijing (CN); and Hu Wang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/191,454.
Prior Publication US 2024/0329958 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/63 (2013.01) [G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/44526 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of facilitating processing within a computing environment, the computer-implemented method comprising:
deploying, at runtime, a container image on a node within the computing environment, the deploying comprising downloading, at runtime, container image content from multiple sites, the downloading comprising:
obtaining a core image of the container image from one or more image registries and updating a local image store with the core image; and
obtaining one or more add-ons of the container image from one or more add-on registries and updating a local add-on store with the one or more add-ons, wherein the container image is managed by a container runtime, the container runtime communicating with an agent on the node using a container runtime interface, the container runtime interface including a definition of an image message type that includes an add-on field to specify the one or more add-ons; and
executing the container image on the node.