Sanal ağ işlevleri için konteynır sanallaştırmanın uygunluğunun incelenmesi

In modern computing it has become common practice to run software on virtual environments and commodity hardware rather than specialized devices. But most of the network appliances in use are still runs on propriety hardware. There is a significant amount of work in the network function virtualization domain to actualize these network functions in a virtualized manner. In this work we conducted a series of performance tests to evaluate the compatibility of modern container based virtualization solutions for NFV. To accomplish this, we implemented a generic service on top of the prevalent container orchestration software Kubernetes and assessed its performance with numerous clients. Our conclusion is while container performance varies with different parameters such as resource limits and instance counts, a well adjusted container setup is compatible to use with virtual network functions excluding some use cases.