Black-box inter-application traffic monitoring for adaptive container placement
Francisco Neves, Ricardo Manuel Pereira Vilaca, José Pereira · 2020
A key issue in the performance of modern containerized distributed systems, such as big data storage and processing stacks or micro-service based applications, is the placement of each container, or container pod, in virtual and physical servers. Although it has been shown that inter-application traffic is an important factor in placement decisions, as it directly indicates how components interact, it has not been possible to accurately monitor it in an application independent way, thus putting it out of reach of cloud platforms.