VMware, Inc.
Synchronizing configurations for container hosted applications

Abstract:

An application executing in a containerized environment may be configured at started up by deploying a configuration agent to execute in a container engine. For each container deployed, instantiating a user configuration plugin and one or more applications to execute in the container. The user configuration plugin may send a request to the configuration agent to request for configuration information relating to the application. The configuration plugin may receive configuration information from the configuration agent and used the received configuration information to configure the application.