Microservice deployment problem in the edge-side of intelligent factories

Abstract

Microservices is an emerging software development architecture. The orchestration and optimization of microservices can effectively reduce the operating latency and improve the service quality. This paper investigates the problem of microservice deployments in the edge side of the intelligent factory. The microservices make up applications with different topologies. The goal is to minimize the weighted summation of the runtime of applications. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer programming model and solved by the CPLEX solver. The experimental results show that the microservice deployment scheme presented in this paper is superior to the greedy deployment strategy.