CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION IN FOG COMPUTING USING KUBERNETES

Abstract

Over the past few years, Fog Computing Concept has emerged to improve the quality of service for the end-users to process the data closer and faster. Fog Computing is an extended version of the cloud near the user’s/end devices. We propose a Fog environment for deploying micro services architecture based application, regarding micro services software architecture (SOA). Microservices based applications and software are often composed of clusters of hundreds of instances of containerized services. This cluster of containers must be fault-tolerant, available, and potentially geographically dispersed. While we are working with containers, we face some problems related to scaling up of the containers, containers’ communication with each other, containers’ appropriate deployment and management, auto-scaling, and distribution of traffic. Microservices is a new software development technique which is more suitable for growing IoT applications because a microservice is an independent process which fulfills the business logic. In this paper, we mainly focused on two scenarios, the first scenario is based on the development of microservice using ambient weather station and wrap up these services using the Docker container platform. Secondly, we use the orchestration platform for deployment, scaling, and management of Docker container-based microservices using Kubernetes platform. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform. The target is to offer an efficient way to orchestrate the microservices using Kubernetes platform.