Patent 11243825 was granted and assigned to Portworx on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A custom file system in a containerized software architecture facilitates the instantiation of application containers. Each container is composed of one or more application image layers. An application container instance includes read-only application image layer data shared among application container instances associated with the same application container. An application container instance may also include read/write application container instance data that is specific to the application container instance.