Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods to provide a firmware update to devices configured in a redundant configuration in an Information Handling System (IHS) are disclosed. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to, when a signed certificate associated with a client expires, challenge the client by transmitting a first plurality of keys to a client IHS, wherein the client IHS is configured to respond the challenge by associating each of the keys with a second plurality of keys, pairing each of the first key with its associated second key, sending the paired first and second keys to the server IHS, and authenticate the client IHS by verifying that each of the first plurality of keys is associated with the second plurality of keys.

Abstract: A method includes receiving a dependency chain matrix from each of a plurality of service end points in a multi-cluster system converging the received dependency chain matrices into a converged data matrix, sharing the converged data matrix as a side car module to each of the plurality of service end points, receiving a service request by an external user or service for at least one of the plurality of service end points, validating an authorization for the service request based on the converged data matrix, and generating a label that is appended to the service request and passed downstream to the plurality of service end points.

Abstract: An approach for updating one or more serverless runtime configurations based on predicting usage patterns of a serverless computing cluster is disclosed. The approach includes collecting one or more attributes associated with an application on a serverless computing cluster and a user of the application and analyzing the one or more collected attributes. Furthermore, the approach includes predicting one or more usage patterns based the analyzing and updating one or more serverless runtime configurations based on the one or more usage patterns.

Abstract: At a sidecar portion sharing a container with a first application portion, metadata describing a modification to a communications protocol is received. At the sidecar portion, a communication of the first application portion to a second application outside the container is received. The modifying is performed according to the metadata. The modified communication is transmitted to the second application.

Abstract: An approach for updating one or more serverless runtime configurations based on predicting usage patterns of a serverless computing cluster is disclosed. The approach includes collecting one or more attributes associated with an application on a serverless computing cluster and a user of the application and analyzing the one or more collected attributes. Furthermore, the approach includes predicting one or more usage patterns based the analyzing and updating one or more serverless runtime configurations based on the one or more usage patterns.

Abstract: A configuration map to be transmitted to a container manager within a network is compiled on a client device and transmitted to the container manager managing a cluster of containers within the network. The configuration map is transmitted from the container manager to a validation service endpoint to attempt to validate the compiled configuration map. In response to the transmitting the configuration map from the container manager, a determination is caused to occur at the validation service endpoint whether the configuration map should be validated by the validation service endpoint. The configuration map is received from the validation service endpoint with a new environmental variable, when the validation service endpoint validates the configuration map.

Abstract: A containerized application is executed within a container in a virtualized container environment. The containerized application exposes service and diagnostic interfaces that allow a container manager to interact with and control different code paths that provide different services from the containerized application. Using the exposed service and diagnostic interfaces, responsive to a container crash and prior to bringing the containerized application back online within the virtualized container environment after the container crash, functionality of the different code paths that provide the different services from the containerized application is validated.

Abstract: A configuration map to be transmitted to a container manager within a network is compiled on a client device and transmitted to the container manager managing a cluster of containers within the network. The configuration map is transmitted from the container manager to a validation service endpoint to attempt to validate the compiled configuration map. In response to the transmitting the configuration map from the container manager, a determination is caused to occur at the validation service endpoint whether the configuration map should be validated by the validation service endpoint. The configuration map is received from the validation service endpoint with a new environmental variable, when the validation service endpoint validates the configuration map.

Abstract: A containerized application is executed within a container in a virtualized container environment. The containerized application exposes service and diagnostic interfaces that allow a container manager to interact with and control different code paths that provide different services from the containerized application. Using the exposed service and diagnostic interfaces, responsive to a container crash and prior to bringing the containerized application back online within the virtualized container environment after the container crash, functionality of the different code paths that provide the different services from the containerized application is validated.