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A holistic evaluation of docker containers for interfering microservices
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posted on 2023-05-23, 13:39 authored by Jha, DN, Saurabh GargSaurabh Garg, Jayaraman, PP, Buyya, R, Li, Z, Ranjan, RAdvancement of container technology (e.g. Docker,LXC, etc.) transformed the virtualization concept by providinga lightweight alternative to hypervisors. Docker has emergedas the most popular container management tool. Recentresearch regarding the comparison of container withhypervisor and bare-metal demonstrates that the container canaccomplish bare-metal performance in almost all case.However, the current literature lacks an in-depth study on theexperimental evaluation for understanding the performanceinterference between microservices that are hosted within asingle or across multiple containers. In this paper, we havepresented the experimental study on the performanceevaluation of Docker containers running heterogeneous set ofmicroservices concurrently. We have conducted acomprehensive set of experiments following CEEM (CloudEvaluation Experiment Methodology) to measure theinterference between containers running either competing orindependent microservices. We have also considered the effectsof constraining the resources of a container by explicitlyspecifying the cgroups. We have evaluated the performance ofcontainers in terms of inter-container (caused by twoconcurrent executing containers) and intra-container (causedbetween two microservices executing inside a container)interference which is almost neglected in the current literature.The evaluation results can be utilized to model the interferenceeffect for smart resource provisioning of microservices in thecontainerized environment.
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Publication title
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)Pagination
33-40ISBN
978-1-5386-7250-1Department/School
School of Information and Communication TechnologyPublisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.Place of publication
USAEvent title
2018 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)Event Venue
San Francisco, USADate of Event (Start Date)
2018-07-02Date of Event (End Date)
2018-07-07Rights statement
Copyright 2018 IEEERepository Status
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