International Business Machines Corporation
Data analysis for predictive scaling of container(s) based on prior user transaction(s)

Abstract:

Predictive scaling of containers is provided based on obtaining, by one or more processors, prior transaction data on one or more of a user's prior transactions on one or more transaction-centric applications, and analyzing by the processor(s), the prior transaction data to predict whether a current transaction of the user on an application is deterministic or non-deterministic as to one or more functional layers of multiple functional layers of the application. Based on predicting that the current transaction is deterministic as to the functional layer(s) of the application, the processor(s) determines compute resource requirements for the deterministic transaction, and launches one or more containers in advance to run the functional layer(s) based, at least in part, on the computed resource requirements of the deterministic transaction.