Load balancing method based on resource utilization and geographic location in associative container environment

Abstract

There is provided a cloud management method and apparatus for performing load balancing so as to make a service in a cluster that is geographically close in an associative container environment and has a good resource current status. The cloud management method according to an embodiment includes: monitoring, by a cloud management apparatus, available resource current statuses of a plurality of clusters, and selecting a cluster that owns a first service supported by a first cluster an available resource rate of which is less than a threshold value; calculating, by the cloud management apparatus, scores regarding an available resource current status and geographical proximity of each cluster; and performing, by the cloud management apparatus, load balancing of the first service, based on a result of calculating the scores. Accordingly, a delay in a response speed of a service that is required in a distributed environment can be minimized, and a service can be supported to be processed in a geographically close cluster through analysis of geographical closeness (proximity) between an access location where there is a user request and a cluster in which services are distributed.