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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition
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Docker Cookbook - Second Edition

by Ken Cochrane, Jeeva S. Chelladhurai, Neependra K Khare
August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
12h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Benchmarking network performance

The network is one of the key aspects to consider while deploying the applications in the container environment. To do performance comparison with bare metal, the VM, and the container, we have to consider different scenarios as follows:

  • Bare metal to bare metal
  • VM to VM
  • Docker container to a container with the default networking mode (bridge)
  • Docker container to a container with host net (--net=host)
  • Docker container running inside a VM with the external world

In any of the preceding cases, we can pick up two endpoints to do the benchmarking. We can use tools such as nuttcp (http://www.nuttcp.net) and netperf (https://github.com/HewlettPackard/netperf) to measure the network bandwidth and request/response, ...

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ISBN: 9781788626866