US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Dec. 9 for "Kubernetes-driven control of network hardware systems" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,965, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Kubernetes-driven control of network hardware systems" was invented by Mircea-Mihai Iordache-Sica (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Kubernetes-cluster-driven modification of network hardware configuration. A Kubernetes event is detected in received network traffic and the corresponding packet is examined to identify a pod of a Kubernetes cluster, then the packet is forwarded to the pod for processing. The pod determines a configuration modification of a network hardware element (e.g., a load balancing switch...