US Patent Issued to VMware on Feb. 3 for "Using CRDs to create externally routable addresses and route records for pods" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,740, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Using CRDs to create externally routable addresses and route records for pods" was invented by Danting Liu (Beijing), Qian Sun (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Wenfeng Liu (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide an automated method for defining externally routable Pods within a Kubernetes cluster. In some embodiments, the Pod operates in a guest cluster has its own VPC (virtual private cloud) network in a datacenter with several other guest clusters that have their own VPC networks and their own set...