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Implementing a Scalable and Elastic Computing Environment Based on Cloud Containers

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In this article we look at the potential of cloud containers and we provide some guidelines for companies and organisations that are starting to look at how to migrate their legacy infrastructure to something modern, reliable and scalable. We propose an architecture that has an excellent relationship between the cost of implementation and the benefits it can bring, based on the “Pilot Light” topology. The services are reconfigured inside small docker containers and the workload is balanced using load balancers that allow horizontal autoscaling techniques to be exploited in the future. By generating additional containers and utilizing the possibilities given by load balancers, companies and network systems experts may model and calibrate infrastructures based on the projected number of users. Containers offer the opportunity to expand the infrastructure and increase processing capacity in a very short time. The proposed approach results in an easily maintainable and fault-tolerant system that could help and simplify the work in particular of small and medium-sized organisations.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Damiano Perri & Marco Simonetti

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    Damiano Perri, Marco Simonetti, Sergio Tasso & Osvaldo Gervasi

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Perri, D., Simonetti, M., Tasso, S., Ragni, F., Gervasi, O. (2021). Implementing a Scalable and Elastic Computing Environment Based on Cloud Containers. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12949. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86653-2_49

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