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Containers in Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS: Orchestration and Operation
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Containers in Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS: Orchestration and Operation

by Yogesh Ramdoss, Nagendra Kumar Nainar
July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
496 pages
15h 2m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from Containers in Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS: Orchestration and Operation

Chapter 6

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

Cisco IOS-XR Architecture

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 ...

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