Federated Cloud & Containerization – A Dockers Perspective

Abstract

As the ecosystem for Cloud Computing was conceptualized it was widely created as an outsourcing of all business IT resource requirement from a cloud service provider. Over the years there has been a progression in cloud computing offerings from not just operating as a single cloud service provider to a multi cloud service providers mutually offering federated cloud as a service. Federated cloud overcome the limitations of single cloud service provider by pooling up the data center resources of multiple clouds vendors and giving high performance on applications, high volume of storage, no downtime and efficient throughput. This requires seamless portability of applications with least overhead requirements and dynamic migrations of applications across the various cloud heterogeneous architecture without interoperability issues. With the advent of containerization technology that packages together application code with all its required dependent libraries and binaries eliminates the technical issues related to portability of applications and incompatibility issues of multiple cloud landscape. Docker containers have revolutionized and remodeled the process of building, installing and executing any application irrespective of the technology used in developing or the size of  the application. These applications bundled in Docker containers make the orchestration of application components across federated cloud a seamless process with high level of flexibility. This paper is conceptualized with a deeper understanding on the impact of containerization on federated cloud.