This document summarizes research on the provisioning performance of cloud microservice platforms. It first discusses containers and microservices, and how containers provide lightweight virtualization compared to VMs. It then presents a performance model for analyzing a microservice platform running on top of a macroservice infrastructure like IaaS. The document outlines experiments conducted using a prototype microservice platform on Docker, Swarm and Composer, and measuring parameters on cloud platforms. Preliminary results are referenced, with plans to submit a further journal publication.