Straesser, MartinErhard, NicholasKounev, SamuelHerrmann, Andrea2025-01-082025-01-0820240720-8928https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/45554Modern cloud technologies rely on container virtualization as the basis for application deployment as they show faster start times compared to virtual machines. Understanding the impacting factors for container start times is crucial for application developers and platform engineers to identify optimization potential. In this work, we extend our previous empirical study on container start times by analyzing the impact of selected host configuration parameters (e.g., disk type, RAM size, CPU vendor). Our insights include that the disk type is the most important platform parameter analyzed. However, attributes of the container image and the host machine must always be considered together to assess container start times accurately.encloudcontainervirtualizationdeploymentperformancestart timeText/Conference Paper