Performance Evaluation of Container Networking Technology

Hybrid cloud and heterogeneous cloud have become industry hotspots in recent years, and are also one of the main growth points of cloud computing market in the coming years. We hope to investigate container virtual network solutions and virtual machine container fusion solutions to manage hybrid and heterogeneous cloud. In this paper, a performance comparison of different container networking solutions, including Flannel, Calico, Weave and SR-IOV+DPDK, are presented. We aim to provide a fair comparison of these solutions for management problems of hybrid cloud and heterogeneous cloud. Results show compared with other solutions at the same packet size, SRIOV has a much better performance even when the packet size is 256 bytes, it can reach linear speed. Then, we put forward some advice on application based on the results.