Migrating VM workloads to Containers: Issues and Challenges

Garg, Surya Kant and Lakshmi, J and Johny, Jain (2018) Migrating VM workloads to Containers: Issues and Challenges. In: 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) Part of the IEEE World Congress on Services, JUL 02-07, 2018, San Francisco, CA, pp. 778-785.

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Abstract

Virtualization technologies such as KVM and XEN have served the purpose of workload consolidation while providing required isolation. With the advent of Linux Docker platform, micro-service architectures have gained popularity. Adaptation of containers have changed the way, the applications are architected, developed, deployed and managed. Compared to Virtualization, containers provide lightweight alternative to co-host multiple applications on single server at the cost of isolation. This paper highlights the issues and challenges associated with migrating VM based workloads to Container platforms. A systematic analysis, illustrated through a representative application benchmark chosen from a real-life e-commerce private cloud setup is used to present these aspects. Specifically, the application workflow that is currently hosted on VMs is chosen and re-casted on to containers platform and a critical study is conducted based on resource sharing, concurrency, isolation and dependability parameters.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
Additional Information:	11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) Part of the IEEE World Congress on Services, San Francisco, CA, JUL 02-07, 2018
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Computational and Data Sciences
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2019 09:12
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2019 09:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61550

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