Development of Container as a Service Management Platform and Architecture Utilizing Linux Container

Abstract:

Cloud computing technology has rapidly advanced and has become a business necessity. Among its services is Container as a Service (CaaS), which offers advantages in application development due to its lightweight nature, ease of deployment, and scalability management. However, container management is complex and requires specialized skills. Traditional tools are often insufficient for simplifying container management and monitoring. Therefore, this paper proposes a CaaS architecture and its management platform to make container management easier for users. The proposed architecture utilizes Linux Containers (LXC), implemented through the Proxmox VE virtualization platform. For container management, a web-based platform is proposed, developed using NextJs. The web interface is designed to be simple, enabling even users without specialized skills to manage containers efficiently while still offering robust features for container management. The proposed CaaS architecture and management platform have been tested and function effectively, aiming to simplify the deployment and management of CaaS for users.

• Periodical: Engineering Headway (Volume 27)
• Pages: 23-30
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/p-G4x83Y
• Online since: October 2025
• Authors: Dzaki Maulana Asif, Achmad Luthfan Nur Irsyad, Sahirul Alam*, Yudhistira Y. K. Budiman
• Keywords: Cloud Architecture, Container as a Service, Container Management, Linux Container, Web Development

References

[1] M.K. Hussein, M.H. Mousa, M.A. Alqarni, A placement architecture for a container as a service (CaaS) in a cloud environment, J. Cloud Comput. 8 (2019) 1-15.

DOI: 10.1186/s13677-019-0131-1

[2] A. Malviya, R.K. Dwivedi, Designing architecture for container-as-a-service (CaaS) in cloud computing environment: A review, in: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Advances in Computing, Renewable Energy and Communication, Singapore, 2022.

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2828-4_50

[3] A. Bhardwaj, C.R. Krishna, Virtualization in cloud computing: Moving from hypervisor to containerization—A survey, Arab. J. Sci. Eng. 46 (2021) 8585-8601.

DOI: 10.1007/s13369-021-05553-3

[4] V. Liagkou, G. Fragiadakis, E. Filiopoulou, C. Michalakelis, T. Kamalakis, M. Nikolaidou, A pricing model for container-as-a-service, based on hedonic indices, Simul. Model. Pract. Theory 115 (2022) 1-14.

DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2021.102441

[5] M.K. Patra, S. Misra, B. Sahoo, A.K. Turuk, GWO-based simulated annealing approach for load balancing in cloud for hosting container as a service, Appl. Sci. 12 (2022) 1-22.

DOI: 10.3390/app122111115

[6] H. Zhu, C. Gehrmann, P. Roth, Access security policy generation for containers as a cloud service, SN Comput. Sci. 4 (2023) 1-15.

DOI: 10.1007/s42979-023-02186-1

[7] M.K. Patra, B. Sahoo, A.K. Turuk, S. Misra, Task grouping and optimized deep learning-based VM sizing for hosting containers as a service, J. Cloud Comput. 12 (2023) 1-18.

DOI: 10.1186/s13677-023-00441-7

[8] B.C. Şenel, M. Mouchet, J. Cappos, T. Friedman, O. Fourmaux, R. McGeer, Multitenant containers as a service (CaaS) for clouds and edge clouds, IEEE Access 11 (2023) 144574-144601.

DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3344486

[9] A. Pavlenko, J. Cahoon, Y. Zhu, B. Kroth, M. Nelson, A. Carter, D. Liao, T. Wright, J. Camacho-Rodríguez, K. Saur, Vertically autoscaling monolithic applications with CaaSPER: Scalable container-as-a-service performance enhanced resizing algorithm for the cloud, in: Companion of the 2024 International Conference on Management of Data, Santiago AA, 2024.

DOI: 10.1145/3626246.3653378

[10] M. Mohamed, R. Engel, A. Warke, S. Berman, H. Ludwig, Extensible persistence as a service for containers, Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 97 (2019) 10-20.

DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.12.015

[11] K. Karmakar, A. Tarafdar, R.K. Das, S. Khatua, Cost-efficient workflow as a service using containers, J. Grid Comput. 22 (2024) 1-21.

DOI: 10.1007/s10723-024-09745-7

[12] D.K. Kim, H.-G. Roh, Scheduling containers rather than functions for function-as-a-service, in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Melbourne, 2021.

DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid51090.2021.00056

[13] T. Petrovski, M. Gusev, Container vs function as a service: Impact on cloud deployment for real-world applications, in: 2024 47th MIPRO ICT and Electronics Convention (MIPRO), Opatija, 2024.

DOI: 10.1109/mipro60963.2024.10569811

[14] C. Canali, R. Lancellotti, P. Pedroni, Microservice performance in container- and function-as-a-service architectures, in: 2022 International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), Split, 2022.

DOI: 10.23919/softcom55329.2022.9911406

[15] S. Miller, T. Siems, V. Debroy, Kubernetes for cloud container orchestration versus containers as a service (CaaS): Practical insights, in: 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), Wuhan, 2022.

DOI: 10.1109/issrew53611.2021.00110