US 12,476,914 B2
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 Jul. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/766,220.
Application 18/766,220 is a continuation of application No. 18/193,583, filed on Mar. 30, 2023, granted, now 12,068,958.
Prior Publication US 2024/0364632 A1, Oct. 31, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
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), a network service directory in a first network cluster based on an advertisement, wherein the advertisement conforms to a routing protocol and comprises information identifying a network service executing in a second network cluster, wherein the network service exposes a backend of a network application to a container orchestration platform of the SDN; and
add, by the network controller, one or more virtual execution elements executing on the first network cluster as endpoints of the network service, wherein the endpoints run the network application.