Containerization

Containerization is an operating system-level virtualization method that packages an application with all its dependencies into an isolated, self-contained executable unit that shares the host kernel and enables consistent execution across heterogeneous computing environments.

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Variants

Operating-system-level VirtualizationOs-level Virtualization

Parents

Cloud Computing

Children

Container ArchitectureContainer ImagesContainer IsolationContainer Lifecycle ManagementContainer LoggingContainer MigrationContainer NetworkingContainer OrchestrationContainer RegistriesContainer Runtimes

Publications

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Docker: lightweight Linux containers for consistent development and deployment

Dirk Merkel · Linux journal · 2014 · 3.3K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +14

Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute

Gregory M. Kurtzer, Vanessa Sochat, Michael W. Bauer · PLoS ONE · 2017 · 2.7K citations · Full text

Computing, High-performance Computing, Systems Engineering +7

BCube

Chuanxiong Guo, Guohan Lu, Dan Li et al. · 2009 · 1.4K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +13

Container terminal operation and operations research - a classification and literature review

Stefan Vo�, Robert Stahlbock, Dirk Steenken · OR Spectrum · 2004 · 1.3K citations

Management, Operations Management, Containerization +15

Containers and Cloud: From LXC to Docker to Kubernetes

David Bernstein · IEEE Cloud Computing · 2014 · 1.1K citations

Computing, Cloud Computing, Computer Systems +12

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Theo Notteboom
University of Antwerp, Belgium
17 publications · 1.7K citations
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Hai Jin
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
10 publications · 385 citations
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Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
9 publications · 450 citations
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Claude Comtois
Université de Montréal, Canada
8 publications · 309 citations
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Mohamed Mohamed
IBM Research - Almaden, United States
8 publications · 264 citations
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Maritime Policy & Management
67 publications · 3.4K citations
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European Journal of Operational Research
35 publications · 3.3K citations
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Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review
32 publications · 2.1K citations
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IEEE Access
37 publications · 1.9K citations
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Maritime Economics & Logistics
MEL · 24 publications · 1.6K citations
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See also Containerization
Core Mechanisms	Control Groups Union File Systems Overlay File Systems
Security Models	Policy Enforcement Rootless Containers Image Signing Seccomp Zero Trust Security Patch Automation Vulnerability Scanning Network Security Policy Enforcement Base Images Control Groups Run-time Resource Monitoring Transport Layer Security
Runtime Platforms	Linux Containers
Orchestration	Load Balancing Process Control Loops Service Discovery Self Healing Automatic Scaling Rolling Updates Persistent Organ Dysfunction Persistent Storage
Use Cases	Edge Computing Serverless Computing Microservices Architecture Test Automation Multi-cloud Deployment Hybrid Cloud Deployment Infrastructure As Code