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Joint Orchestration of Cloud-Based Microservices and Virtual Network Functions

Networking and Internet Architecture 2018-01-31 v1

Abstract

Recent studies show the increasing popularity of distributed cloud applications, which are composed of multiple microservices. Besides their known benefits, microservice architecture also enables to mix and match cloud applications and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) services (service chains), which are composed of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Provisioning complex services containing VNFs and microservices in a combined NFV/cloud platform can enhance service quality and optimise cost. Such a platform can be based on the multi-cloud concept. However, current multi-cloud solutions do not support NFV requirements, making them inadequate to support complex services. In this paper, we investigate these challenges and propose a solution for jointly managing and orchestrating microservices and virtual network functions.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09984,
  title  = {Joint Orchestration of Cloud-Based Microservices and Virtual Network Functions},
  author = {Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei and Holger Karl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09984},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted in The Ninth International Conferences on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization

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