Eric Gamess
ABSTRACT
On the one hand, Single-Board Computers (SBCs) are gaining acceptance due to their small form factor, low energy requirements, affordability, versatility, and increasing computing power. On the other hand, containerization is transforming how software applications are developed, managed, and deployed. In particular, containerization has emerged as an innovative solution to the problem of running software applications across diverse environments by encapsulating them into single, lightweight units called containers (binary code, libraries, configuration files, etc), that can be executed consistently on different platforms without dependency issues (missing or incompatible dependencies). In this paper, several SBCs from the Raspberry Pi Foundation were selected and an empirical assessment was performed to analyze how far these SBCs can be used with container technologies (aka Docker). The authors conducted performance tests that included containerizing CPU-intensive applications, web servers, and database servers. According to these tests, even low-profile SBCs such as the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ can be considered to run a Docker engine, and the maximum number of containers will depend on the containerized applications. For these two SBCs, the most frequent limitation encountered in the experiments was the small RAM capacity.
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- Performance Evaluation of the Docker Technology on Different Raspberry Pi Models
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