CSMD: Container state management for deployment in cloud data centers

As the containers are lightweight in resource usage, they are preferred for cloud and edge computing service deployment. Containers serve the requests whenever a user sends a query; however, they remain idle when no user request comes. Again, improving the consolidation ratio of container deployments is essential to ensure fewer servers are used in a cloud data center with an optimal resource balance. To increase the consolidation ratio of a cloud data center, in this paper, we propose a system called Container State Management for Deployment (CSMD) to manage the container states. CSMD uses an algorithm to checkpoint the idle containers so that their resources can be released. The new containers are deployed using the released resources in a server. In addition, CSMD uses an algorithm to check the container status periodically, and the containers are resumed from the checkpoint state when the user requests them. We evaluate CSMD in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) by performing efficient state management of the containers. The experiments in the Amazon cloud show that the proposed CSMD system is superior to the existing algorithms as the proposed system increases the consolidation ratio of data centers.