Container-based operating system virtualization: a scalable, high-performance alternative to hypervisors

By Stephen Soltesz, Herbert Pötzl, M. Fiuczynski, Andy C. Bavier, Larry L. Peterson. European Conference on Computer Systems, 2007

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Reproducible network experiments using container-based emulation (2012, background): “…Emulation (CBE), e.g. virtual Emulab ( vEmulab in this paper) [18], NetKit [19], Trel-lis [20], CORE [21], Mininet [22] and many others, employs lighter-weight OS-level containers that share a single kernel to achieve better scalability than VM-based systems on a single system [23, 22].”
An updated performance comparison of virtual machines and Linux containers (2015, methodology): “The Linux-VServer [47] project was an initial implementation of “virtual private servers” in 2001 that was never merged into mainstream Linux but was used successfully in PlanetLab.”
Internet of Things: An Overview (2017, methodology): “Linux VServer[92], Linux Containers LXC, and OpenVZ are examples of using OS virtualization in embedded systems domain.”
This paper is included in the Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’16). (positive): “Container-based virtualization [53] has become popular recently.”
Cloud Container Technologies: A State-of-the-Art Review (2019, background): “…service-level objectives (SLO) and some parameters describing the adaptation mechanism in-between (e.g., elastic), as the grouping below shows: The fact that the aim is gain in performance (less overhead) through containers as virtualisation mechanisms is noteworthy [S13,S19,S30,S35,S36,S39].”
Virtualization: A Survey on Concepts, Taxonomy and Associated Security Issues (2010, background): “Two primary benefits offered by any virtualization technology are • Resource sharing - Unlike in non-virtualized environment where all the resources are dedicated to the running programs, in virtualized environment the VMs shares the physical resources such as memory, disk and network devices of…”
Fog of Everything: Energy-Efficient Networked Computing Architectures, Research Challenges, and a Case Study (2017, methodology): “In a nutshell, their main architectural differences are that [70], [71]: (i) the VM technology relies on a Middleware software layer (e.”
My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container (2017, background): “A number of OS-level virtualization technologies exist and are widely deployed, including Docker, LXC, FreeBSD jails and Linux-VServer, among others [6, 13, 25, 42].”