Evaluation of Docker for IoT Application

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is highly connected smart devices through the internet network, the number of connecting devices is increasing day by day. So this will have a major impact on industry standard, security, business model and entire IT ecosystem. However, developers are facing multiple barriers while developing, creating and scaling IoT application. Docker is an open source container based virtualization technology which can help to develop and scale IoT application easy and fast. This paper introduces various container based virtualization technologies and Docker for IoT application requirement. In this paper, an IoT application is developed and run inside the container and over the host. Benchmark tools are used to analyse the performance of host and docker.