A Cloud-Agnostic Container Orchestrator for Improving Interoperability

The last several years have seen a rapid increase in the use of containers and containerizing services, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and LXC. With such a rise comes a vast increase in opportunities for improved portability, security, and automation. While many of these opportunities are being taken advantage of in containers today, there remains many more possibilities that have not been explored. In this paper, we present a novel approach to container management that enables the rapid live migration of stateful containers between any hosts within private, public, or hybrid clouds, through a simple interface that provides a high-level view of the network of computing nodes and the containers running on them. Finally, we provide a vision for container management that allows greatly improved security and resiliency through autonomous and self-migrating containers existing across the scope of the Internet.