High performance networking across docker containers

A system comprising:

• a computer system that comprises a memory, and a processor coupled with the memory, the first computer system configured to perform a method for providing communication between application containers hosted in the system, the method comprising:
• executing a host operating system (OS), the host OS being an instance of an OS, the host OS comprising a plurality of application containers operatively coupled to the memory;
• and
• executing a virtual network interface for each of the application containers of the host OS, wherein
• communications amongst the application containers of the host OS is performed utilizing shared memory communications to implement remote direct memory access (RDMA) transparently.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer processor to cause the computer processor to perform a method for implementing networking communication across application containers in a computer server system, the method comprising:

• executing, by a computer system from the computer server system, a host operating system (OS), the host OS being an instance of an OS, the host OS comprising a plurality of application containers operatively coupled to a memory;
• executing, by the host OS, a virtual network interface for each of the application containers;
• and
• implementing, by the host OS, a remote direct memory access (RDMA) transparently for communications amongst the application containers by utilizing shared memory communications.