Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Container image layer reordering
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Application No.: US16732376Application Date: 2020-01-02
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Publication No.: US10936293B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Kishore Kumar Varadharajan Kannan
- Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Richard A. Wilhelm
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44 ; G06F8/61 ; G06F8/71 ; G06F8/65 ; G06F16/901

Abstract:
A method, computer program product, and computer system for constructing, by a computing device, a dependency graph using dependency links provided between layers of an image. Versions of the image may be inspected. Update frequencies of the layers of the image may be identified. A rank to the layers of the image may be assigned based upon, at least in part, the update frequencies of the layers of the image. A new layer arrangement for the image may be generated by ordering the new layer arrangement between a lowest ranked layer and a highest ranked layer based upon, at least in part, the dependency graph. A new standardized deployment image may be built using the image layers reordered in the new layer arrangement.
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