Partitioned Containers: Towards Safe Clouds for Industrial Applications

In this paper, we propose the concept of Partitioned Containers, born from the convergence between containers and partitioning hypervisors. While the former is a key virtualization technology for cloud platforms, the latter is attracting interest in industrial settings, since they can provide strong isolation between applications, as mandated by safety standards. Our idea is to combine the advantages of both, fostering the adoption of cloud technologies in industrial settings toward a “container-everywhere” vision. The paper proposes an architecture and the challenges for the realization of the concept.