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Extending the Kubernetes Platform with Network-Aware Scheduling Capabilities

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Abstract

Kubernetes is today the de-facto standard container orchestration platform for the lifecycle management of microservices-based applications on Cloud environments. However it is not yet ready to be adopted on node clusters distributed in the Cloud-to-Edge continuum. In particular its scheduling strategy is not suitable for the placement of modern latency-sensitive applications on Edge environments, characterized by frequent node failures and network partitions. In this work we propose a network-aware scheduling extension of the default Kubernetes scheduler that takes into account the ever changing infrastructure network conditions and the dynamic communication interactions between microservices, with the aim to optimize the placement of application containers.

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    https://kubernetes.io.

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    https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/kube-scheduler.

  3. 3.

    https://k6.io/.

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    https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc.8.html.

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  1. Department of Electrical Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Angelo Marchese & Orazio Tomarchio

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  1. University of Malaga, Málaga, Spain

    Javier Troya

  2. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Brahim Medjahed

  3. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

    Mario Piattini

  4. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Lina Yao

  5. University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Pablo Fernández

  6. University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Antonio Ruiz-Cortés

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Marchese, A., Tomarchio, O. (2022). Extending the Kubernetes Platform with Network-Aware Scheduling Capabilities. In: Troya, J., Medjahed, B., Piattini, M., Yao, L., Fernández, P., Ruiz-Cortés, A. (eds) Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13740. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20984-0_33

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