Performance Evaluation of Virtual Machine and Container-Based Migration Technique

The transformation from hypervisor to microservice-based virtualization, i.e., containerization, is gaining considerable attention. This is because container virtualization offers a lightweight and efficient way to package and deploy software applications. Containers require minimum resources than virtual machines, which makes them more efficient and cost effective. The performance overhead of a container compared to a virtual machine has been explored by researchers, but support for migration, an essential technique of cloud virtualization, needs to be addressed. In this work, we proposed container-based migration technique and compared the performance with existing VM migration scheme. The results show that compared to the existing VM migration scheme, our proposed container migration technique reduces downtime, migration time, and the number of pages transferred by 72.8%, 54.94%, and 97.5%, respectively.