July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
15h 2m
English
Container Orchestration in Cisco IOS-XR Platforms
In this chapter, you will learn the following:
Cisco IOS-XR Architecture and key software components and characteristics
Platform support and environment readiness for application hosting
Application hosting workflow—Native hosting, LXC-based, and Docker-based deployments
Container management considerations
In the 1980s, Cisco introduced the first internetwork operating system (IOS) for multiprotocol routers with limited memory and single-core CPUs with low processing power. Cisco IOS, a monolithic, kernel-based architecture with a centralized infrastructure, uses OS scheduler for scheduling and executing the processes. Each process running in IOS is single ...