Application Oriented Dynamic Resource Allocation for Data Centers Using Docker Containers

Docker offers an opportunity for further improvement in data centers’ (DCs) efficiency. However, existing models and schemes fall short to be efficiently used for Docker container-based resource allocation. We design a novel application oriented Docker container (AODC)-based resource allocation framework to minimize the application deployment cost in DCs, and to support automatic scaling while the workload of cloud applications varies. We then model the AODC resource allocation problem considering features of Docker, various applications’ requirements, and available resources in cloud data centers, and propose a scalable algorithm for DCs with diverse and dynamic applications and massive physical resources.