Peer-to-Peer Bargaining in Container-Based Datacenters

In container-based datacenters, failure-prone components are sealed in pre-packaged shipping containers, and component failures over time reduce the availability of resources. From the perspective of services, application instances can usually be migrated across the boundary of containers as Virtual Machines (VMs). In such an environment, it would be sometimes beneficial to migrate application instances to take better advantage of available resources. In this paper, the authors first point out those application placement strategies that are singularly focused on the efficiency of resource usage may not be beneficial, especially when resources are over-provisioned in container-based data centers. They believe that application instances should be placed based on the Buffet principle, using resources in an aggressive fashion.0 words