Efficient Orchestration of Distributed Workloads in Multi-Region Kubernetes Cluster
Distributed Kubernetes clusters provide robust solutions for geo-redundancy and fault tolerance in modern cloud architectures. However, default scheduling mechanisms primarily optimize for resource availability, often neglecting network topology, inter-node latency, and global resource efficiency, l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Computers |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/14/4/114 |
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| Summary: | Distributed Kubernetes clusters provide robust solutions for geo-redundancy and fault tolerance in modern cloud architectures. However, default scheduling mechanisms primarily optimize for resource availability, often neglecting network topology, inter-node latency, and global resource efficiency, leading to suboptimal task placement in multi-region deployments. This paper proposes network-aware scheduling plugins that integrate heuristic, metaheuristic, and linear programming methods to optimize resource utilization and inter-zone communication latency for containerized workloads, particularly Apache Spark batch-processing tasks. Unlike the default scheduler, the presented approach incorporates inter-node latency constraints and prioritizes locality-aware scheduling, ensuring efficient pod distribution while minimizing network overhead. The proposed plugins are evaluated using the kube-scheduler-simulator, a tool that replicates Kubernetes scheduling behavior without deploying real workloads. Experiments cover multiple cluster configurations, varying in node count, region count, and inter-region latencies, with performance metrics recorded for scheduler efficiency, inter-zone communication impact, and execution time across different optimization algorithms. The obtained results indicate that network-aware scheduling approaches significantly improve latency-aware placement decisions, achieving lower inter-region communication delays while maintaining resource efficiency. |
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| ISSN: | 2073-431X |