US Patent 12131197 Container load balancing and availability

A system includes a container cluster including plural hosts that communicate with one another via a network. Each of the plural hosts includes a computing node that includes an operating system and a container runtime configured to run containers. Each of the plural hosts stores a respective member list that defines capabilities of the plural hosts in the container cluster. Each of the plural hosts is configured to identify another one of the plural hosts for running a container based on comparing tags of the container to the capabilities of the plural hosts defined in the respective member list. Each respective one of the plural hosts is configured to perform the identifying the another one of the plural hosts for running the container in response to determining the respective one of the plural hosts is resource-constrained from running the container.