Firecracker: lightweight virtualisation for serverless applications, Agache et al., NSDI'20 Finally the NSDI'20 papers have opened up to the public (as of last week), and what a great looking crop of papers it is. We looked at a couple of papers that had pre-prints available last week, today we'll be looking at one of the … Continue reading Firecracker: lightweight virtualization for serverless applications
Tag: Containers
Papers that touch on container technology.
My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container
My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container Manco et al., SOSP’17 Can we have the improved isolation of VMs, with the efficiency of containers? In today’s paper choice the authors investigate the boundaries of Xen-based VM performance. They find and eliminate bottlenecks when launching large numbers of lightweight VMs (both unikernels and minimal … Continue reading My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container
Paracloud: bringing application insight into cloud operations
Paracloud: bringing application insight into cloud operations Nadgowda et al., HotCloud'17 We'll be looking at a selection of papers from HotCloud'17 this week. The HotCloud workshop focuses on new and emerging trends in cloud computing, and the CfP particularly encourages position papers that describe novel research directions and work that is in its formative stages. … Continue reading Paracloud: bringing application insight into cloud operations
A study of security vulnerabilities on Docker Hub
A study of security vulnerabilities on Docker Hub Shu et al., CODASPY '17 This is the first of five papers we'll be looking at this week from the ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy which took place earlier this month. Today's choice is a study looking at image vulnerabilities for container images … Continue reading A study of security vulnerabilities on Docker Hub
SCONE: Secure Linux containers with Intel SGX
SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX Arnautov et al., OSDI 2016 We looked at Haven earlier this year, which demonstrated how Intel’s SGX could be used to shield an application from an untrusted cloud provider. Today’s paper choice, SCONE, looks at how to employ similar ideas in the context of containers. …existing container isolation … Continue reading SCONE: Secure Linux containers with Intel SGX
Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers
Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers - Harter et al. 2016 On you marks, get set, docker run -it ubuntu bash. How long did it take before you saw the bash prompt? In this wonderful FAST'16 paper, Harter et al. analyse what happens behind the scenes when you docker run a container image, and … Continue reading Slacker: Fast Distribution with Lazy Docker Containers
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg - Verma et al. 2015 Borg has been running all of Google's workloads for the last ten years, and the learnings from Borg are being packaged into kubernetes so that the rest of the world can benefit from them. An important paper then as the rest of us … Continue reading Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
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