PROJECT TITLE :

Building the IBM Containers cloud service

ABSTRACT:

Linux® containers have been employed for operating system-level virtualization since around 2008, however only recently they have started to achieve tremendous popularity, fueled by open source comes such as Warden and Docker. Initially, container technologies are used mainly for stateless net applications in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds, but because the technology matures, they're getting used for a bigger variety of cloud workloads that are sometimes run on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds. For this reason, we developed the IBM Containers service, a cloud service that enables multiple developers to compose, deploy, and manage the lifecycle of complex application topologies with security and isolation on a shared infrastructure. The service provides developers with features of a PaaS cloud and adaptability of an IaaS cloud. In this paper, we tend to discuss the challenges, design, security issues, and capabilities of the service.