An Analysis of the Energy Consumption Behavior of Scaled, Containerized Web Apps
Sandro Kreten, Achim Guldner, Stefan Naumann · Sustainability · 2018
Containerization is one of the most important topics for modern data centers and web developers. Since the number of containers on one- and multi-node systems is growing, knowledge about the energy consumption behavior of single web-service containers is essential in order to save energy and, of course, money. In this article, we are going to show how the energy consumption behavior of single containerized web services/web apps changes while creating replicas of the service in order to scale and balance the web service.