OpenStack and Docker: Building a high-performance IaaS platform for interactive social media applications

Calinciuc, Alin; Spoiala, Cristian Constantin; Turcu, Cristina Elena; Filote, Constantin

doi:10.1109/daas.2016.7492588

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“…Many papers exist and discuss OpenStack and specialized uses, e.g. for social media applications [35] and software-defined network perimeters [43]. In contrast, this paper is unique in that we demonstrate how a resilient and elastic cloud service platform can initially be put in place and subsequently be scaled up.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…In [35], discussing OpenStack and Docker, Calinciuc et al consider building a fully functional IaaS platform for social media applications. The discussion of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization vs Docker containerization specifically for social media applications in [35] is important because it highlights the fundamental idea of containerization being more efficient than traditional virtualization.…”

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Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack

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Rimal

Reisslein

et al. 2021

ACI

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PurposeMajor public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure or Google, offer seamless experiences for infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). With the emergence of the public cloud's vast usage, administrators must be able to have a reliable method to provide the seamless experience that a public cloud offers on a smaller scale, such as a private cloud. When a smaller deployment or a private cloud is needed, OpenStack can meet the goals without increasing cost or sacrificing data control.Design/methodology/approachTo demonstrate these enablement goals of resiliency and elasticity in IaaS and PaaS, the authors design a private distributed system cloud platform using OpenStack and its core services of Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Horizon and Glance on a five-node deployment.FindingsThrough the demonstration of dynamically adding an IaaS node, pushing the deployment to its physical and logical limits, and eventually crashing the deployment, this paper shows how the PackStack utility facilitates the provisioning of an elastic and resilient OpenStack-based IaaS platform that can be used in production if the deployment is kept within designated boundaries.Originality/valueThe authors adopt the multinode-capable PackStack utility in favor of an all-in-one OpenStack build for a true demonstration of resiliency, elasticity and scalability in a small-scale IaaS. An all-in-one deployment is generally used for proof-of-concept deployments and is not easily scaled in production across multiple nodes. The authors demonstrate that combining PackStack with the multi-node design is suitable for smaller-scale production IaaS and PaaS deployments.

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Section: Iaas Cloud Using Openstackmentioning

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design of a small-scale and failure-resistant IaaS cloud using OpenStack

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Rimal

Reisslein

et al. 2021

ACI

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“…It provides virtualized resources and workspace to multiple independent users 44,49 . Surely, containers can be deployed within both bare‐metal and OpenStack deployment platforms 53‐56 . However, the work discussed in References 38,39 remark that containers deployed in OpenStack cloud load quicker as compared with bare‐metal systems.…”

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A quantitative cross‐comparison of container networking technologies for virtualized service infrastructures in local computing environments

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Piro

Grieco

et al. 2021

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Container networking is emerging as a game‐changer paradigm for the deployment of virtualized service infrastructures in a faster and reliable way. Nevertheless, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are still skeptical to revise their business in this direction because of the absence of deep studies showing its effectiveness in real deployments leveraging local computing environments. To bridge this gap, this article presents a quantitative cross‐comparison of cutting‐edge technologies for container networking (including Docker as a container engine, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes as orchestrators, bare‐metal and OpenStack cloud as deployment platform), properly integrated to realize a virtualized service infrastructure within a commercial workstation. Initial experimental tests are conducted to identify the most suitable combination of technologies for high‐load environments, where many clients contact the virtualized service infrastructure to download files of large size. Obtained results demonstrate that the combination of Docker and Kubernetes generally ensures better performance on the bare‐metal deployment platform, thus emerging as mature and effective solutions to be used by SMEs. Finally, the behavior of the identified virtualized service infrastructure is also evaluated in a smart farm use case, where containers are in charge of processing images provided by mobile drones for monitoring purposes. In addition, in this case, the conducted study highlights the promising capability offered by container networking in real deployments, exploiting local computing environments.

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