# Industrial Control via Application Containers: Migrating from Bare-Metal to IAAS

## TL;DR

This paper investigates migrating industrial control systems from dedicated hardware to cloud platforms using containers, demonstrating that real-time applications can meet latency requirements on cloud infrastructure.

## Contribution

It provides empirical evidence that time-critical industrial control applications can operate effectively on cloud platforms with containerization.

## Key findings

- Latency tests show viability of cloud for real-time control
- Containerization enables flexible migration of industrial software
- Real-time performance is achievable on IAAS platforms

## Abstract

We explore the challenges and opportunities of shifting industrial control software from dedicated hardware to bare-metal servers or cloud computing platforms using off the shelf technologies. In particular, we demonstrate that executing time-critical applications on cloud platforms is viable based on a series of dedicated latency tests targeting relevant real-time configurations.