US 12,068,958 B1
Network service discovery
Michael Henkel, Saratoga, CA (US); Mahesh Sivakumar, Milpitas, CA (US); and Richard Roberts, Rennes (FR)
Assigned to JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/193,583.
Int. Cl. H04L 45/76 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 45/76 (2022.05) [H04L 45/04 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing system comprising processing circuitry having access to a storage device, the processing circuitry configured to:
generate, by a network controller executing in a software defined network (SDN), an advertisement in a first network cluster executing within a container orchestration platform of the SDN, wherein the advertisement conforms to a routing protocol and comprises information identifying a network service executing in the first network cluster, wherein the network service exposes a backend of a network application to the container orchestration platform of the SDN; and
broadcast, by the network controller and to a second network cluster executing within the container orchestration platform of the SDN, the advertisement in accordance with the routing protocol.