Efficient Microservices with Elastic Containers.

Containers are a popular mechanism used among application developers when deploying their systems on cloud platforms. Both developers and cloud providers are constantly looking to simplify container management, provisioning, and monitoring. In this paper, we present a container management layer that sits beside a container orchestrator that runs, what we call, Elastic Containers. Each elastic container contains multiple subcontainers that are connected to a centralized Global Cloud Manager (GCM). The GCM gathers subcontainer resource utilization information directly from inside each kernel running the subcontainers. The GCM then tries to efficiently and optimally distribute resources between the application subcontainers residing on a distributed environment.