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Netnod is at the forefront of secure and robust services.\nThesis description\nAt Netnod we mainly design security through diversity, that is by composing systems through many different nodes in many different levels so that there is no single point of failure. In terms of security our systems focus on providing availability and integrity, even in extreme scenarios.\nHowever, sometimes we have to make hard decisions with regards to performance vs easy-of-use (such as virtualization and orchestration) in terms of technical implementation. In practical terms, what is the real world difference between running a network heavy application, such as NTS time servers, in a non-virtualized environment versus running it on an orchestrated kubernetes cluster?\nNTS is a time distribution protocol involving both computational overhead (for TLS) and network throughput (for answering queries).\nThis thesis concerns digging into this issue, and if possible, suggest solutions. 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