QoS Assurance with Light Virtualization - A Survey
Parisa Heidari, Yves Lemieux, Abdallah A. Shami · 2016
Linux containers provide a low overhead and lightweight virtualization solution that increases significantly deployment density of containers per host. Using containers, different applications are deployed as a set of micro-services. This in turn improves resource utilization and cost efficiency, system agility and continuous development, and also upgrade and runtime modification. Therefore, containers have attracted lots of attention as an alternative to virtual machines hosting the cloud applications. In spite of several advantages of containers versus virtual machines, assuring quality of the provided service is challenging. In this paper, we survey some of the available promising container orchestration solutions with particular attention to their quality of service assurance capability.