Kerveros - Efficient and Scalable Cloud Admission Control

Explore a 15-minute conference talk from OSDI '23 that delves into Kerveros, an innovative admission-control system for cloud computing. Learn about the challenges of managing cloud capacity and how Kerveros addresses them with its three key properties: high computational scalability, accurate capacity provisioning, and efficient resource packing. Discover the novel bookkeeping techniques used to quickly estimate available capacity for incoming VM requests. Gain insights into the system's deployment in Microsoft Azure and its impressive performance, achieving over four nines of availability while maintaining low request processing latencies. Understand how Kerveros tackles the illusion of infinite cloud capacity and manages the dynamic changes in both supply and demand in cloud environments.