CoMA: Resource Monitoring of Docker Containers

Lara Lorna Jiménez, Miguel Gómez Simón, Olov Schelén, Johan Kristiansson, Kåre Synnes, Christer Åhlund

2015

Abstract

This research paper presents CoMA, a Container Monitoring Agent, that oversees resource consumption of operating system level virtualization platforms, primarily targeting container-based platforms such as Docker. The core contribution is CoMA, together with a quantitative evaluation verifying the validity of the measurements reported by the agent for three metrics: CPU, memory and block I/O. The proof-of-concept is implemented for Docker-based systems and consists of CoMA, the Ganglia Monitoring System and the Host sFlow agent. This research is in line with the rising trend of container adoption which is due to the resource efficiency and ease of deployment. These characteristics have set containers in a position to topple virtual machines as the reigning virtualization technology in data centers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Jiménez L., Gómez Simón M., Schelén O., Kristiansson J., Synnes K. and Åhlund C. (2015). CoMA: Resource Monitoring of Docker Containers . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-758-104-5, pages 145-154. DOI: 10.5220/0005448001450154

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer15,
author={Lara Lorna Jiménez and Miguel Gómez Simón and Olov Schelén and Johan Kristiansson and Kåre Synnes and Christer Åhlund},
title={CoMA: Resource Monitoring of Docker Containers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2015},
pages={145-154},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005448001450154},
isbn={978-989-758-104-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - CoMA: Resource Monitoring of Docker Containers
SN - 978-989-758-104-5
AU - Jiménez L.
AU - Gómez Simón M.
AU - Schelén O.
AU - Kristiansson J.
AU - Synnes K.
AU - Åhlund C.
PY - 2015
SP - 145
EP - 154
DO - 10.5220/0005448001450154