Abstract: A technique is directed toward controlling placement of workloads of an application within an application environment. The technique involves, while a first placement of workloads of the application is in a first deployment of resources within the application environment, generating a set of resource deployment changes that accommodates a predicted change in demand on the application. The technique further involves adjusting the first deployment of resources within the application environment to form a second deployment of resources within the application environment, the second deployment of resources being different from the first deployment of resources. The technique further involves providing a second placement of workloads of the application in the second deployment of resources to accommodate the predicted change in demand on the application, the second placement of workloads being different from the first placement of workloads.

Abstract: A technique performs load balancing self-adjustment within an application environment. The technique involves, while nodes of the application environment load balance traffic among clusters that provide services for an application in accordance with a first load balancing configuration, sensing application environment metrics. The technique further involves performing a self-adjustment operation that generates a second load balancing configuration based on the application environment metrics, the second load balancing configuration being different from the first load balancing configuration. The technique further involves deploying the second load balancing configuration among the nodes to enable the nodes to load balance the traffic among the clusters that provide the services for the application in accordance with second load balancing configuration in place of the first load balancing configuration.

Abstract: Techniques manage cluster resources within an application environment. The techniques involve identifying a group of cluster resources from a plurality of cluster resources of the application environment, the plurality of cluster resources being constructed and arranged to provide a plurality of services. The techniques further involve forming an application slice having the group of cluster resources. The techniques further involve deploying the application slice to provide services. Certain techniques provide a platform that allows operators to build application slices (or application overlays) that are a way of grouping application pods (or containers) based on one or more organizing principles such as velocity of deployment, security, governance, etc.