Towards an Environment Supporting Resilience, High-Availability, Reproducibility and Reliability for Cloud Applications

This paper presents a design study of an environment that would provide for resilience, high-availability, reproducibility and reliability of Cloud-based applications. The approach involves the use of a resilient container overlay, which provides tools for tracking and optimizing container placement during the course of a scientific experiment execution. The system is designed to detect failure and current performance bottlenecks and be capable of migrating running containers on the fly to servers more optimal for their execution. This work is in the design phase and therefore in this paper, we outline the proposed architecture of system and identify existing container management and migration tools that can be used in the implementation, where appropriate.