Comparing Container-Based Microservices and Workspace as a Service: Which One to Choose?

2018 IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE) Pub Date : 2018-03-26 DOI:10.1109/SOSE.2018.00040

Junming Ma, Bo An, Donggang Cao, Xiangqun Chen

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The concept of microservices has gained increasing popularity since 2014. Almost during the same period, container technology keeps developing and is considered as an excellent way to build microservices-based applications. Mainstream public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform all provide users with container-based solutions to implementing microservices. Workspace as a Service (WaaS) proposed by An et al. is another approach which uses containers to serve users. Both container-based microservices and WaaS are used to effectively utilize cluster resources via maintaining a number of containers. In this paper, we compare the designing ideas and supporting platforms of these two approaches, which provides a perspective for cluster administrators and users to understand the scenarios where to use them and how to make an appropriate choice to meet their needs. We find that container-based microservices are more suitable for professional IT companies while WaaS fits education and research institutions better.

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比较基于容器的微服务和作为服务的工作空间:选择哪一个?

自2014年以来，微服务的概念越来越受欢迎。几乎在同一时期，容器技术不断发展，被认为是构建基于微服务的应用程序的一种极好的方式。主流的公共云供应商，如Amazon Web Services、Microsoft Azure和Google cloud Platform，都为用户提供基于容器的解决方案来实现微服务。An等人提出的工作空间即服务(WaaS)是另一种使用容器为用户服务的方法。基于容器的微服务和WaaS都可以通过维护大量容器来有效地利用集群资源。在本文中，我们比较了这两种方法的设计思想和支持平台，这为集群管理员和用户提供了一个视角，以了解在哪里使用它们以及如何做出适当的选择来满足他们的需求。我们发现基于容器的微服务更适合专业的IT公司，而WaaS更适合教育和研究机构。

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