Patent 11997170 was granted and assigned to VMware on May, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of migrating an application to a container platform includes the steps of: installing a first agent that collects information about the application; detecting information about a first process of the application, wherein the detected information about the first process is received from the first agent; and based on the detected information about the first process, generating a container file including instructions for building a first container that executes the first process and a deployment file for deploying the first container for execution on the container platform.