Performance Study of Kubernetes Cluster Deployed on Openstack,VMs and BareMetal

Kubernetes is an OpenSource Orchestration tool used for deploying and managing containerized applications at scale. Kubernetes easily manages the cluster with a master and worker nodes in which the Pods are been hosted. Nowadays many Cloud Infrastructure Providers like AWS, GoogleCloud, and Microsoft Azure understand the importance of Kubernetes and have added these services to their products. Openstack is a novel and highly manageable OpenSource cloud IaaS platform where the components manage huge pools of compute, storage, and networking resources. In this experimental work we studied and compared the local deployment of Kubernetes Cluster using minikube with the VM deployment and OpenStack deployment. A demo application with microservices Architecture has been taken for this study in which we compare the CPU and Memory Usage on the deployment of the cluster in OpenStack, VMs and BareMetal. The preliminary results show that the bare-metal deployment outperforms the other deployments in both Computing and Memory intensive applications.