Exploring the potential of FreeBSD virtualization in containerized environments

Francesc Xavier Puig, J. J. Villalobos, Ivan Rodero, Manish Parashar

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Abstract

Enterprise and Cloud environments are rapidly evolving with the use of lightweight virtualization mechanisms such as containers. Containerization allow users to deploy applications in any environment faster and more efficiently than using virtual machines. However, most of the work in this area focused on Linux-based containerization such as Docker and LXC and other mature solutions such as FreeBSD Jails have not been adopted by production-ready environments. In this work we explore the use of FreeBSD virtualization and provide a comparative study with respect to Linux containerization using Apache Spark. Preliminary results show that, while Linux containers provide better performance, FreeBSD solutions provide more stable and consistent results.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationUCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages191-192
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450351492
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 5 2017
Event10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2017 - Austin, United States
Duration: Dec 5 2017Dec 8 2017

Publication series

NameUCC 2017 - Proceedings of the10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing

Other

Other10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period12/5/1712/8/17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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