Patent attributes
A distributed network controller that is configured in a containerized architecture is described. The network controller includes a plurality of microservices packaged and deployed using respective containers for the microservices, according to a plurality of charts, each chart comprising one or more templates that define a manner in which the microservices, for performing respective operations of the network controller, are deployed on a plurality of servers within the data center. Execution of the microservices of the distributed network controller establishes a virtual network for packetized communications among virtual execution elements executing on the plurality of servers in the data center. Each container that includes one of the plurality of microservices is executed by a server of the plurality of servers as an isolated user-space instance on the server.
