Investigation on Performance Evaluation of Containerized Microservice for Edge Computing Environment

Abstract

Microservices have emerged as one of the most popular software development architectures among developers, industries, and academia due to their advantages over traditional monolithic architectures. Many large technology companies are transitioning from monolithic systems to microservice-based architectures. Containerization technologies offer scalable and efficient deployment solutions. This study proposes a methodology for deploying a microservice designed for greenhouse-related computations using Docker and Kubernetes containerization method. The experimental architecture is presented, and the deployed microservice is evaluated using key performance metrics, including Response time(RT), Throughput (Th), and Hits per second (HpS), under varying user loads. Statistical methods are applied to analyze the microservice performance results. The findings conclude that the quality aspects of deploying microservices through the containerization method are stable up to a specific stress level within an edge computing environment.