Abstract: In general, this disclosure describes techniques for seamlessly migrating containers among or within computing infrastructures so as to preserve the integrity of data, the configurations, and the availability of the attached storage volumes for the containers. For example, a controller having a distributed software architecture may orchestrate, according to container migration workflow, components of the container migration application to accomplish a set of container migration tasks for a container to be moved. The container migration tasks include copying the live container to a target node, recreating the network configuration for the container on the target node, and reattaching any storage volume to the container on the target node. The container is, in this way, seamlessly migrated from a node on which it is currently executing to a different target node, and the controller may issue a command to start executing the container on the target node.

Abstract: An example controller node may, responsive to receiving a resource request from a client device, deploy a compute node for execution on a particular data center selected from data centers within a distributed computing system, and store at least one address assigned to the compute node in a node inventory data store. After storing the at least one address, and responsive to determining that the compute node is not accessible using the at least one address the controller node may determine, based on information received from the particular data center, that the compute node is still available for execution on the particular data center, and receive, from the particular data center, at least one updated address assigned to the compute node. The controller node may then update the node inventory data store to store the at least one updated address that is assigned to the compute node.