Using Linux Containers in Telecom Applications

Container Technology is one of the most hyped virtualization technologies in the last couple of years. It enables not only higher application density on the same HW environment compared to hypervisor-based technologies but it also gives performance benefits regarding to starting and stopping applications. Container technologies are not new, but more recently an entire ecosystem has been built around them and also a lot of synergy has been created with the currently have hypervisor-based cloud technology. Telecom applications exhibit strong performance and high availability requirements, therefore running them in containers requires additional investigations. This article targets to present the container ecosystem from this angle. In particular we are looking at the way how the currently available technology can be used and extended to meet the requirements of telecom applications.?