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Performance and Security Evaluation in Microservices Architecture Using Open Source Containers

Abstract:

Nowadays, microservices architecture has increased its popularity within software development. This architecture is considered as a refinement and simplification of the service-oriented architecture (SOA). In microservices, the development approach is given by the functional decomposition into small services, where each one makes use of its own computational resources and light communication mechanisms, such as HTTP. Compared to monolithic architectures, microservices can be developed using different code bases. Therefore, performance and security are two of the quality attributes that must be taken into account when building microservices. The objective of this work is to define a DevOps Pipeline that allows us to use best practices at the development level to improve performance and security in pre-production environments. For deployment, two open-source containers are selected to evaluate under which situations it is more convenient to use Docker or Containerd, especially at the base image level.