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A Performance Survey of Lightweight Virtualization Techniques

Authors : Max Plauth, Lena Feinbube, Andreas Polze

Published in: Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

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.

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Metadata
Title
A Performance Survey of Lightweight Virtualization Techniques
Authors
Max Plauth
Lena Feinbube
Andreas Polze
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-67261-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-67262-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67262-5_3

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