Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for migrating containerized workloads across different container orchestration platform offerings.

Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of control plane lifecycle management using data processing unit (DPU) devices. In some examples, a passthrough between a control plane virtual machine and a data processing unit (DPU) is enabled using a DPU management hypervisor executed by a DPU device. The DPU device is installed to the host device. The DPU device receives a control plane update command with instructions to update a control plane that includes the control plane virtual machine. The control plane update command is performed. Control plane data for the update is transmitted through the passthrough.

Abstract: Techniques for migrating a workload between two container clusters (i.e., source and destination container clusters) that use different processor architectures are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques involve implementing a migration container cluster that (1) creates a backup of the workload from the source container cluster, where the backup includes metadata regarding one or more objects or resources of the workload, and (2) restores the backup on the destination container cluster, where the restoring causes a worker node of the destination container cluster to automatically retrieve, from an image repository, a container image for the workload that is specific to the second processor architecture and deploy the container image as a running container on the worker node.