Containerization of the Security Application on Electric Power IoT Terminal
Tengyan Wang, Zhipeng Shao, Nige Li, Zheng Guang Xu · 2023
The development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology brings convenience to the development of the electric power business but also brings security risks. Moreover, owing to the massive heterogeneity of IoT terminals, traditional security protection measures are restricted in terms of deployment, adaptation, operation, maintenance, and other aspects. Docker containers take up fewer resources and are easy to transplant; therefore, they are suitable for deploying secure ap-plications in the IoT computing environment with limited resources and power. This study fo-cuses on the container virtualization technology of the security applications on electric power IoT terminals. We propose a general process for application containerization to standardize the work done in each stage of containerization. The union file system is used to build a multilayer container architecture to reduce resource usage and improve deployment speed. Thus, the secu-rity applications can be run in containers to realize their real-time deployment and real-time op-eration in the heterogeneous intelligent electric power IoT terminals to achieve the security ca-pabilities of on-demand orchestration and timely response of electric power IoT terminals.