Containers for Virtualization: An Overview

2018
Vitor Goncalves da Silva, Mārīte Kirikova, Gundars Alksnis

Virtualization has enabled the commoditization of cloud computing, as the hardware resources have become available to run different environments and share computing resources amongst different enterprises. Two technology types are commonly used in virtualization of hardware, namely, hypervisor and container. The present paper concerns only container technologies. A comprehensive overview of the container technologies for virtualization and the dynamics of their popularity have not been available yet. Without such an overview, the informed fast choice of technologies is hindered. To fill this knowledge gap, a systemic literature review was conducted to reveal the most popular container technologies and the trends in their research.

Keywords
Application virtualization, distributed computing, distributed processing.
DOI
10.2478/acss-2018-0003
Hyperlink
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/acss-2018-0003

Goncalves da Silva, V., Kirikova, M., Alksnis, G. Containers for Virtualization: An Overview. Applied Computer Systems, 2018, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 21-27. ISSN 2255-8683. e-ISSN 2255-8691. Available from: doi:10.2478/acss-2018-0003

Publication language
English (en)