Docker experience at INFN-Pisa Grid Data Center

Mazzoni, E.; Arezzini, Silvia; Ciampa, A.; Coscetti, Simone; Bonacorsi, D.

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/664/2/022029

“…Containers, as used in this paper, are a group of namespaced processes run within an operating system. Docker is the most widely used platform according to [19] and one of the few platforms that can migrate apps at run-time and enable easy communication. For these reasons it was used as the main testing platform.…”

Section: Container Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Blockchain-based Edge Computing Architecture for the Internet of Things

Tošić¹,

Vičič²,

Burnard³

et al. 2022

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing widespread adoption across industry sectors ranging from supply chain management to smart cities, buildings, and health monitoring. However, most software architectures for IoT deployment rely on centralized cloud computing infrastructures to provide storage and computing power, as cloud providers have high economic incentives to organize their infrastructure into clusters. Despite these incentives, there has been a recent shift from centralized to decentralized architecture that harnesses the potential of edge devices, reduces network latency, and lowers infrastructure cost to support IoT applications. This shift has resulted in new edge computing architectures, but many still rely on centralized solutions for managing applications. A truly decentralized approach would offer interesting properties required for IoT use cases. To address these concerns, we introduce a decentralized architecture tailored for large scale deployments of peer-to-peer IoT sensor networks and capable of run-time application migration. The solution combines a blockchain consensus algorithm and verifiable random functions to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, transparency, and no single point of failure. We build on our previously presented theoretical simulations with many protocol improvements and an implementation tested in a use case related to monitoring a Slovenian cultural heritage building located in Bled, Slovenia.

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“…Containers, as used in this paper, are a group of namespaced processes run within an operating system. Docker is the most widely used platform according to [13] and one of the few platforms that can migrate apps at run-time and enable easy communication. For these reasons it was used as the main testing platform.…”

Section: Container Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Blockchain-based Edge Computing Architecture for the Internet of Things

Tošić¹,

Vičič²,

Burnard³

et al. 2021

Preprint

0

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is experiencing widespread adoption across industry sectors ranging from supply chain management to smart cities, buildings, and health monitoring. However, most software architectures for IoT deployment rely on centralized cloud computing infrastructures to provide storage and computing power, as cloud providers have high economic incentives to organize their infrastructure into clusters. Despite these incentives, there has been a recent shift from centralized to decentralized architecture that harnesses the potential of edge devices, reduces network latency, and lowers infrastructure cost to support IoT applications. This shift has resulted in new edge computing architectures, but many still rely on centralized solutions for managing applications. A truly decentralized approach would offer interesting properties required for IoT use cases. To address these concerns, we introduce a decentralized architecture tailored for large scale deployments of peer-to-peer IoT sensor networks and capable of run-time application migration. The solution combines a blockchain consensus algorithm and verifiable random functions to ensure scalability, fault tolerance, transparency, and no single point of failure. We build on our previously presented theoretical simulations with many protocol improvements and an implementation tested in a use case related to monitoring a Slovenian cultural heritage building located in Bled, Slovenia.

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“…As industry moves beyond the Virtual Machine consolidation paradigm, several types of containers have come to prominence. Two flavors in particular currently enjoy the share of deployments on the Linux operating system: LXC and Docker [4]. LXC provides a "normal" OS environment that supports all the features and capabilities available in the Linux environment.…”

Section: Lxc and Dockersmentioning

confidence: 99%