Docker-pi: Docker container deployment in fog computing infrastructures
by Arif Ahmed; Guillaume Pierre
International Journal of Cloud Computing (IJCC), Vol. 9, No. 1, 2020

Abstract: The transition from virtual machine-based infrastructures to container-based ones brings the promise of swift and efficient software deployment in large-scale computing infrastructures. However, in fog computing environments which are often made of very small computers such as Raspberry Pis, deploying even a very simple Docker container may take multiple minutes. We demonstrate that Docker makes inefficient usage of the available hardware resources, essentially using different hardware subsystems (network bandwidth, CPU, disk I/O) sequentially rather than simultaneously. We therefore propose three optimisations which, once combined, reduce container deployment times by a factor up to 4. These optimisations also speed up deployment time by about 30% in datacentre-grade servers.

Online publication date: Mon, 16-Mar-2020

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