A Performance Comparison of Containers and Virtual Machines in Workload Migration Context
Yong Chiang Tay, Kumar Gaurav, Pavan Karkun · 2017
This paper gives a mathematical framework for decision making around placing and migrating workloads in a data-center where applications are packaged as OS containers running on virtual machines. The decision point on VM migration vs container kill/restart, VM fork vs container spawn are studied here.