Leveraging Linux containers to achieve High Availability for cloud services

Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IC2E 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 76-83

  Li, Wubin ^a   Kanso, Ali ^a   Gherbi, Abdelouahed ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; High Availability; Linux container; Middleware; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; LINUX; MIDDLEWARE; VIDEO STREAMING;

APPLICATION COMPONENTS; APPLICATION LEVEL; CLOUD APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; HIGH AVAILABILITY; SCHEDULING SCHEMES; VIDEO STREAMING APPLICATIONS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CONTAINERS;

EID: 84944314567     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IC2E.2015.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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