SHF: Small: Resilient Operations for Deployment Units Used in Container Orchestration

在软件工程中，容器是一个自包含的软件包，它包括在任何环境中运行的所有必要元素。为了快速向客户部署软件，组织使用容器编排。容器编排是以务实的方式大规模管理容器的实践，其中可以自动提供和管理数百个容器，即轻量级计算机虚拟化工具。到2026年，集装箱编排的市场价值预计将达到13亿美元。虽然这种做法带来了好处，但集装箱编排的弹性仍然是组织面临的挑战。如果没有容器编排的弹性实施，已部署的软件将变得不可靠，从而给组织及其客户带来大规模后果。由于集装箱编排的某些特性是独一无二的，基础科学研究是必要的。这些研究调查的执行将产生新的科学证据，产生容器编排独有的新技术，并推动软件工程研究的状态。该项目产生的所有软件将公开提供给行业从业者、研究软件工程师和学者使用。该项目生成的数据集将有利于整个软件工程界进行进一步的研究。该项目还将通过积极吸收代表性不足群体的学生参与，促进扩大对STEM的参与。通过将生成的研究成果传播到研究生和本科课程中，学生将获得弹性集装箱编排方面的知识，这将直接有助于美国国家战略计算倡议强调的国家发展知识型网络基础设施劳动力的持续努力。该项目将开展研究活动，调查如何将弹性融入集装箱编排实践。该项目的重点是发展部署单元弹性操作的科学，部署单元是执行容器编排的关键。该项目将执行两项任务：(1)通过检测不一致状态和弹性卷管理，对部署单位进行弹性供应；(2)通过检测防火墙和分区差异，对部署单位之间的流量进行弹性路由。该项目将确定集装箱编排特有的部署、数量和区域差异的根本原因。该项目由CEISE软件和硬件基础计划和既定的激励竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)联合资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In Software Engineering, a Container is a self-contained package of software that includes all of the necessary elements to run in any environment. To deploy software rapidly to customers, organizations use container orchestration. Container orchestration is the practice of pragmatically managing containers at scale, where hundreds of containers, i.e., lightweight computer virtualization tools, can be automatically provisioned and managed. Container orchestration is expected to reach USD 1.3 billion worth of market value by 2026. While this practice has yielded benefits, resiliency for container orchestration remains a challenge for organizations. Without resilient implementation of container orchestration, deployed software becomes unreliable, creating large-scale consequences for organizations and their customers. As certain characteristics are unique to container orchestration, foundational scientific research investigations are necessary. Execution of these research investigations will yield new scientific evidence, generate novel techniques unique to container orchestration, and advance the state of software engineering research. All software generated from the project will be publicly available to industry practitioners, research software engineers, and academics for usage. Datasets generated from the project will be beneficial to the entire software engineering community to conduct further research. The project will also foster broadening of participation in STEM by pro-actively involving students from under-represented groups. Through dissemination of generated research into graduate and undergraduate courses, students will gain knowledge on resilient container orchestration, which will directly contribute to the nation's ongoing efforts in developing a knowledgeable cyber infrastructure workforce, emphasized by the U.S. National Strategic Computing Initiative.This project will conduct research activities to investigate how to integrate resiliency into the practice of container orchestration. The focus of this project is to grow the science of resilient operations for deployment units, which are pivotal to perform container orchestration. This project will execute two tasks: (i) resilient provisioning of deployment units through detection of discrepant states and resilient volume management, and (ii) resilient routing of traffic between deployment units through detection of firewall and zonal discrepancies. This project will identify root causes of deployment, volume, and zonal discrepancies that are unique to container orchestration.This project is jointly funded by CISE Software and Hardware Foundations program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.