Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized Infrastructures
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Benchmarking Methodology Working Group                            K. Sun
Internet-Draft                                                   H. Yang
Intended status: Informational                                   Y. Park
Expires: September 8, 2019                                        Y. Kim
                                                     Soongsil University
                                                                  W. Lee
                                                                    ETRI
                                                           March 7, 2019

  Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized
                            Infrastructures
                 draft-dcn-bmwg-containerized-infra-00

Abstract

   This draft describes benchmarking considerations for a containerized
   infrastructure.  In a containerized infrastructure, Virtualized
   Network Functions(VNFs) are deployed on operating-system-level
   virtualization platform by abstracting the user namespace as opposed
   to virtualization using a hypervisor.  Leveraging this, the system
   configurations and networking scenarios for VNF benchmarking will be
   partially changed by way of resource allocation and network port
   binding between a physical host and VNFs.  In this draft we compare
   the state of the art in container networking architecture with
   networking on VM-based virtualized systems, and provide several test
   scenarios for network performance in containerized infrastructure.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Benchmarking Consideration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Comparison with VM based Infrastructure . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Additional Considerations for Container Networking  . . .   5
   4.  Test Scenarios  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   The Benchmarking Methodology Working Group(BMWG) has recently
   expanded its benchmarking scope from Physical Network Function(PNF)
   running on dedicated hardware system to Network Function
   Virtualization(NFV) infrastructure and Virtualized Network
   Function(VNF).  [RFC8172] described considerations for configuring
   NFV infrastructure and benchmarking metrics, and [RFC8204] gives
   guidelines for benchmarking virtual switch which connects VNFs in
   Open Platform for NFV(OPNFV).

   Recently NFV infrastructure has evolved to include a lightweight
   virtualized platform called the containerized infrastructure, where
   VNFs share the same host Operating System(OS) and they are logically
   isolated by using a different namespace.  While previous NFV
   infrastructure uses a hypervisor to allocate resources for Virtual
   Machine(VMs) and instantiate VNFs on it, the containerized
   infrastructure virtualizes resources without a hypervisor, therefore
   making containers very lightweight and more efficient in
   infrastructure resource utilization compared to a VM based NFV
   infrastructure.  When we consider benchmarking for VNFs in the

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