/Wormhole

Microsoft Intern Project '22

Primary LanguageGo

Project Wormhole

Live migration of containers between Mariner Linux hosts on Azure Kubernetes Service.

Architecture

Diagram detailing structure of a wormhole live migration Wormhole pods are deployed on the source and destination nodes to enable migration. Checkpoint and restore utilities are utilized on the host machine to access the containerd container runtime.

File I/O Workload

A toy file I/O Go application for demonstrating the transfer of container state between nodes.

Experiments

Explorations of potential aspects of the live migration workflow.

Kernel

Wormhole live migration requires an AKS cluster with a Mariner kernel compiled with options to enable CRIU. CRIU must also be installed on the cluster nodes.