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Containers and clusters for edge cloud architectures - a technology review

Pahl, Claus orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9049-212X and Lee, Brian (2015) Containers and clusters for edge cloud architectures - a technology review. In: 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud-2015), 24-26 Aug 2015, Rome, Italy. ISBN 978-1-4673-8103-1/15

Abstract
Cloud technology is moving towards more distribution across multi-clouds and the inclusion of various devices, as evident through IoT and network integration in the context of edge cloud and fog computing. Generally, lightweight virtualisation solutions are beneficial for this architectural setting with smaller, but still virtualised devices to host application and platform services, and the logistics required to manage this. Containerisation is currently discussed as a lightweight virtualisation solution. In addition to having benefits over traditional virtual machines in the cloud in terms of size and flexibility, containers are specifically relevant for platform concerns typically dealt with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) clouds such as application packaging and orchestration. For the edge cloud environment, application and service orchestration can help to manage and orchestrate applications through containers as an application packaging mechanism. We review edge cloud requirements and discuss the suitability container and cluster technology of that arise from having to facilitate applications through distributed multi-cloud platforms build from a range of networked nodes ranging from data centres to small devices, which we refer to here as edge cloud.
Metadata
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Container; Cluster; Virtualisation; Cloud Computing; PaaS; Multi-cloud; Edge Cloud; Orchestration; Topology
Subjects:Computer Science > Software engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4)
Research Initiatives and Centres > Lero: The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Published in: 2015 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud. . IEEE. ISBN 978-1-4673-8103-1/15
Publisher:IEEE
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FiCloud.2015.35
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:20641
Deposited On:16 Sep 2015 10:22 by Claus Pahl . Last Modified 20 Jan 2021 14:24
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