Container-as-a-service analysis report

This deliverable will report on the evaluation of different containervirtualization technologies in terms of supported features already known advantages and drawbacks together with the level of community acceptance It will also describe the architecture of the proposed containerasaservice solution for HPC building on the chosen technology It will include Overview of system management and application deployment on clusters deployed on bare metal virtual machines and containers along with considerations advantages and disadvantages of each approach statement of the problems which containerized applications can address information on the architecture and technologies to be used together with any needed configuration Report on security issues Examination of potential performance impacts which require investigation in subsequent benchmarking tasks Examples of applications deployed with the containerasaservice architecture for HPC