Cloud Container Service Orchestrated with Kubernetes: a State-of-the-Art Technology Review and Application Proposal

Abstract

This paper discusses specific technology related issues with the latest release of the container orchestrator Kubernetes and combining it with certain container runtimes. We provide a technology-focused state-of-the-art review, addressing identified research gaps in this area. Following the depreciation of Dockershim in the latest K8s release 1.26, we’ve tested the migration to another container management tool, that enables using the latest functions or the Containerd runtime (Nerdctl). At the same time this migration also allows running containers in a secure and resource effective way and managing them together with container images. The application we study is orchestrating a container cluster-based cloud NIDS service by using the latest Snort 3 system. We’ve also outlined directions for future research.