US 12,131,189 B2
Change management service
Thomas James O'Rourke, Surrey (GB); Brian Davis, Valrico, FL (US); Abhinandan Baheti, Bhilwara (IN); Matthew Carpenter, Kent (GB); and Vivek Kumar Singh, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/104,806.
Claims priority of application No. 202241069046 (IN), filed on Nov. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0176660 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 9/5005 (2013.01) [G06F 9/54 (2013.01); H04L 41/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method performed by an operator in a containerized environment, the method comprising:
receiving, from a computing cluster in the containerized environment, a first request for changing a first object type specified by an approval policy resource, wherein the approval policy resource is a first one of a plurality of custom resources, the computing cluster comprising a plurality of nodes running containerized applications;
identifying, in response to receiving the first request and using a second custom resource of the plurality, an approval process associated with the first object type;
performing the approval process associated with the first object type, wherein performing the approval process associated with the first object type comprises adding an annotation to the first object type that indicates that the first object type is approved; and
sending, to the computing cluster, a first notification indicating that the request has been approved.