Abstract: A service control system manages a set of storage clients operating within one or more computing hosts. Storage clients may access a consistent storage system regardless which cloud provider the computing hosts come from. To provide storage, each logical volume accessed by a container is associated with a microcontroller at the computing host. The microcontroller is managed by the service control system and stores data for the logical volume at two or more replicas on different computing hosts.

Abstract: A service control system manages a set of containers operating within one or more computing hosts. Containers may access a consistent runtime environment regardless which cloud provider the computing hosts come from. Each computing host also runs a control plane agent that interacts with the service control system to provide a set of services to the containers on the computing host and connect the containers to an overlay network of the service control system. The service control system thus may provide networking, firewall, storage, and load balancing services to the various containers. This permits a set of heterogeneous computing hosts to provide consistent services regardless of the underlying computing resources and containers that are managed by the service control system.