Container-based applications are increasingly favored for their efficiency in software
development, deployment, and operation across various platforms. However, the growing …

In edge computing, an Internet of Things (IoT) node may employ container-based
virtualization to manage and process data collected by sensors. Compared to cloud …

Hybrid deployment of containers with different kernel types offers a novel solution for cloud
service providers. While extensive research has been conducted on shared kernel …

The Confidential Containers (CoCo) project, as an open-source community initiative, inherits
the system architecture of Kata Containers while integrating confidential computing to …

Container Runtime Systems (CRSs), which form the foundational infrastructure of container
clouds, are critically important due to their impact on the quality of container cloud …

Privilege escalation and escape attacks pose the greatest security threats for containers
since they have a direct impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the …

Kubernetes (K8s) has grown in popularity over the past few years to become the de-facto
standard for container orchestration in cloud-native environments. While research is not new …

Firecracker is a virtual machine manager (VMM) purpose-built by AWS for serverless cloud
platforms—services that run code for thousands of end users on a per-task basis …

Containerization has revolutionized software development and deployment by providing
lightweight and portable encapsulations of applications and their dependencies …

This dissertation brings together some of the defining trends of early 21st century computing—
cloud computing, heterogeneous computing, and the increasingly complex …