Automatic generation of affinity and anti-affinity rules

A computer implemented method, including: receiving an application to be deployed on a container-based environment (301); obtaining a specification for the application including information regarding a portion of the application contained within a given container (302); extracting portion information corresponding to connections between different portions of the application and interferences between different portions of the application (303); identifying affinity indicators and anti-affinity indicators for the portions of the application, wherein the affinity indicators are based upon the connections between different portions of the application and wherein the anti-affinity indicators are based upon the interferences between different portions of the application; and constructing affinity rules and anti-affinity rules for the containers by combining the affinity indicators to construct affinity rules and combining the anti-affinity indicators to construct anti-affinity rules (306).