@inproceedings{435d2d9182e14158a058f0689f931b34,
title = "Containers and clusters for edge cloud architectures-A technology review",
abstract = "Cloud technology is moving towards more distribution across multi-clouds and the inclusion of various devices, as evident through IoT and network integration in the context of edge cloud and fog computing. Generally, lightweight virtualisation solutions are beneficial for this architectural setting with smaller, but still virtualised devices to host application and platform services, and the logistics required to manage this. Containerisation is currently discussed as a lightweight virtualisation solution. In addition to having benefits over traditional virtual machines in the cloud in terms of size and flexibility, containers are specifically relevant for platform concerns typically dealt with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) clouds such as application packaging and orchestration. For the edge cloud environment, application and service orchestration can help to manage and orchestrate applications through containers as an application packaging mechanism. We review edge cloud requirements and discuss the suitability container and cluster technology of that arise from having to facilitate applications through distributed multi-cloud platforms build from a range of networked nodes ranging from data centres to small devices, which we refer to here as edge cloud.",
keywords = "Cloud Computing, Cluster, Container, Edge Cloud, Multi-cloud, Orchestration, PaaS, Topology, Virtualisation",
author = "Claus Pahl and Brian Lee",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 ; Conference date: 24-08-2015 Through 26-08-2015",
year = "2015",
month = oct,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1109/FiCloud.2015.35",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 and 2015 International Conference on Open and Big Data, OBD 2015",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "379--386",
editor = "Muhammad Younas and Irfan Awan and Massimo Mecella",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, FiCloud 2015 and 2015 International Conference on Open and Big Data, OBD 2015",
address = "United States",
}