%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Performance Survey of Lightweight Virtualization Techniques
%+ University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
%A Plauth, Max
%A Feinbube, Lena
%A Polze, Andreas
%Z Part 2: Microservices and Containers
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 6th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC)
%C Oslo, Norway
%Y Flavio De Paoli
%Y Stefan Schulte
%Y Einar Broch Johnsen
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
%V LNCS-10465
%P 34-48
%8 2017-09-27
%D 2017
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-67262-5_3
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X The increasing prevalence of the microservice paradigm creates a new demand for low-overhead virtualization techniques. Complementing containerization, unikernels are emerging as alternative approaches. With both techniques undergoing rapid improvements, the current landscape of lightweight virtualization approaches presents a confusing scenery, complicating the task of choosing a suited technology for an intended purpose. This work provides a comprehensive performance comparison covering containers, unikernels, whole-system virtualization, native hardware, and combinations thereof. Representing common workloads in microservice-based applications, we assess application performance using HTTP servers and a key-value store. With the microservice deployment paradigm in mind, we evaluate further characteristics such as startup time, image size, network latency, and memory footprint.
%G English
%Z TC 2
%Z WG 2.14
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01677609/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01677609/file/449571_1_En_3_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01677609
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01677609
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%~ IFIP-WG
%~ IFIP-ESOCC
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