Harmonizing Heterogeneous Hosts: A Strategic Framework for Docker Container Placement Optimization

Harmonizing Heterogeneous Hosts: A Strategic Framework for Docker Container Placement Optimization
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© 2024 by IJETT Journal
Volume-72 Issue-7
Year of Publication : 2024
Author : Jalpa M. Ramavat, Kajal S. Patel
DOI : 10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I7P106

How to Cite?

Jalpa M. Ramavat, Kajal S. Patel, "Harmonizing Heterogeneous Hosts: A Strategic Framework for Docker Container Placement Optimization," International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology, vol. 72, no. 7, pp. 58-68, 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315381/IJETT-V72I7P106

Abstract
Containerized applications are self-contained units of code executed within isolated environments called containers, encompassing all necessary dependencies like libraries and configuration files. Containerization gives portability, scalability, and efficiency. So, the rise in containerization will also increase the use of orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes, and others. Docker has simple deployment and is suitable for small numbers of containers. Docker Swarm is a management tool for Docker containers. Docker Swarm uses a spread strategy to place containers of services in a Docker cluster. Spread distributes containers evenly throughout the Docker swarm cluster, but load balancing in nodes with varying resources could be improved. So, a placement strategy is developed in this paper that considers the available resources of the node while placing a container on it. The results show improvements in load balancing and the completion time of service containers.

Keywords
Cloud computing, Containerization, Container scheduling, Docker swarm, Orchestration, Recourses, Spread strategy.

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