The Prospects for Multi-Cloud Deployment of SaaS Applications with Container Orchestration Platforms

Abstract

Recent years have seen an increased adoption of container technology for software deployment and lightweight virtualization. More recently, container orchestration systems provide a platform for container deployment and management of cluster resources. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers traditionally make use of middleware to facilitate multi-tenancy in a federated cloud. Container orchestration presents many opportunities in achieving scalability and providing cost-efficient multi-tenancy. In this paper, we outline opportunities and challenges for multi-cloud deployment of containerized SaaS applications.