Integration With Docker Container Technologies for Distributed and Microservices Applications

Docker containerization is a newly emerging technology, which brings virtualization to software applications. Specifically, lightweight-ness has brought higher advantage for the Docker containers. Often, the deployment of distributed net centric applications on cloud hosted Docker containers is a new approach for enterprise applications. This emerging approach has been discussed on many online forums, but currently there is no secondary research study to consolidate this approach. This research study aims to identify, systematically compare and taxonomically classify the existing research studies and their practical approaches. The systematic study was conducted of fifty-seven (57) selected research studies. Selected research studies were classified and compared based on the characterization framework. The study brings the results in a discussion of emerging concerns in the Docker based deployments. Furthermore, the study is moving closer to current concerns in distributed, microservices based net centric software applications