Containers in the Cloud

Containers

• Encapsulate applications and dependencies in a image
• Execute an image in a container
• Share the host OS kernel
• Flexible, portable, secure, observable
• Containerisation platforms: Docker, Podman, LXD, and rkt

Clouds

• Cloud-native apps scale effectively, dynamically allocate resources
• One way - use containers
• Kubernetes container orchestration: deployment, scaling, management

StarExec in the Cloud

• Cloud-native through containerisation and Kubernetes
• Open distribution model
• Deployable by developers, users
• Make ATP easily usable by anyone, anywhere