Research Article

A Fine-Grained Horizontal Scaling Method for Container-Based Cloud

Table 1

Overview of various HPA for container.

VirtualizationBasisMetricsMethodAbility

ContainerCPU and memoryTime and throughputControl theoryDynamic
ContainerCPUNothingRule-basedStatic
VM and containerCPU and bandwidthApplication throughputRule-basedStatic
VM and containerCPUNothingRule-basedStatic
ContainerCPU, memory, and bandwidthTime and throughputRule-basedDynamic