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I personally think Unikernals will overshadow Containers in a few years. They just in my mind offer a model that is much more security and speedy. I give them a
by RubenSandwich 9y ago
I personally think Unikernals will overshadow Containers in a few years. They just in my mind offer a model that is much more security and speedy. I give them a few years because Unikernals still need to figure out better tooling; debugging, producing and deploying them is currently difficult.
- tjbiddle 9y agoA few years is a lifetime in tech; why not learn what is new and see how if it's applicable to you and improves things now? You'll come out with more experience, can throw it on your resume, and very likely be more prepared for the next tech to come along.
- unilynx 9y agoIt seems pretty unlikely that unikernels will ever replace containers. Containers allow you to run almost all of the past decades of software with no or little modification (and most modifications are done in bash), a unikernel is more like a new OS that applications need to be ported to, without the full POSIX API (eg, no subprocesses) - it's probably easier to port a multiprocess server (eg most SMTP servers) from Linux to the NT API than to port them to a unikernel
- pjmlp 9y agoNot necessarily, on programming languages with nice standard libraries/runtimes it is just a matter of running them bare metal. A JEE application doesn't care if WebSphere is running on OS XYZ, bare metal or an hypervisor. In a way I consider POSIX C's runtime that should have been made part of ANSI C.
- pjmlp 9y agoI think it would be quite cool, but it needs to become the next fashion in order to go mainstream. After all we on Java world were already doing that with application containers, it would be just a matter of running them bare metal.