The Performance Comparison of Native and Containers for the Cloud

Abstract

With the rapid development of cloud computing, virtualization technology as a key technology in cloud computing is also constantly evolving. Virtualization technology has faced a major challenges in the contradiction between application-to-application independence and resource interoperability. As a kind of virtual technology based on operating system, the container perfectly solved the problem of program independence and resource sharing. This paper introduces the current two container technologies: Docker and Rkt. It firstly overviews the traditional virtual machine and container technology and finally tests the CUP and I/O performance of two containers through the special tools.