Autoscaling Performance Measurement Tool

Abstract

More companies are shifting focus to adding more layers of virtualization for their cloud applications thus increasing the flexibility in development, deployment and management of applications. Increase in the number of layers can result in additional overhead during autoscaling and also in coordination issues while layers may use the same resources while managed by different software. In order to capture these multilayered autoscaling performance issues, an Autoscaling Performance Measurement Tool (APMT) was developed. This tool evaluates the performance of cloud autoscaling solutions and combinations thereof for varying types of load patterns. In the paper, we highlight the architecture of the tool and its configuration. An autoscaling behavior for major IaaS providers with Kubernetes pods as the second layer of virtualization is illustrated using the data collected by APMT.