BumbleBee: Application-aware adaptation for container orchestration

Abstract

Modern applications have embraced separation of concerns as a first-order organizing principle through the use of containers, container orchestration, and service meshes. However, adaptation to unexpected network variation has not followed suit. We present BumbleBee, a lightweight extension to the container ecosystem that supports application-aware adaptation. BumbleBee provides a simple abstraction for making decisions about network data using application semantics. Because this abstraction is placed within the communications framework of a modern service mesh, it is closer to the point at which changes are detected, providing more responsive and effective adaptation than possible at endpoints.

arXiv commentThis version fixes problems (e.g., with the video-streaming experiments) from the previous versions