1. A method of providing services in a computer network, comprising: providing a native registry in memory of the computer network, the native registry comprising a naming service, storing service access information for services available in the computer network; on a node of the computer network, providing an instance of a service; updating securely the native registry with a set of service access information for the service associated with the provided service instance; providing a content switch in the computer network that is loaded with a node controller; for the service, obtaining service configuration information from the native registry including at least a portion of the service access information; and asynchronously operating the content switch node controller to activate the service on the computer network including configuring the content switch based on the obtained service configuration information.