Effective distributed cloud services
| Reference number | |
| Coordinator | Luleå tekniska universitet - Centrum för Distansöverbryggande teknik |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 1 000 000 |
| Project duration | December 2014 - December 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
Docker is a tool for managing process containers and providing efficient virtualization, software development and deployment. Monitoring of such systems is necessary to deliver mission critical services. The project objective was to study models, methods and tools to measure and monitor Docker containers, to present the result in real-time and to prepare for automatic analysis and control. Goals included cooperate between industry and academia, to build a proof of concept, to make quantitative validation, and to publish the results. The objective and goals have been fulfilled.
Expected results and effects
The results includes a proof-of-concept implementation and a publication in CLOSER 2015 http://closer.scitevents.org/?y=2015. The work was carried out in cooperation between Luleå Universityy of Technology and Ericsson. The expected effects of these results are to spear further research on monitoring, analysis and control of distributed software systems and cyber physical systems. This project was a first step in a larger research vision.
Planned approach and implementation
The project was carried out in a team of two PhD students at LTU (Lara Lorna Jiménez and Miguel Gómes Simón) and senior researchers/supervisors at LTU (Olov Schelén, Christer Åhlund och Kåre Synnes) and at Ericsson (Johan Kristiansson). The project methodology was based on a light-weight form of SCRUM, adapted for research projects. Our analysis concludes that the methodology has been effective. The project results are highly relevant for industry and have a reasonable scientific level. We project that this is a basis for further research results in the future.