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This is potentially a big step forward for the cloud, this is also the missing component to push Serverless. Currently if you want to use containers and Server
by asien 8y ago
This is potentially a big step forward for the cloud, this is also the missing component to push Serverless.
Currently if you want to use containers and Serverless you'll need to spin up 200+MB of linux bistro + tons of dependancies that have nothing to do with what you originally planned, that's to say running a container with a virtual machine on it.
This kernel would allow to replace Unix for a much more lightweight (1MB) and efficient kernel to run programs on it with an hypervisor.
This is promising.
- perbu 8y agoYou'd need a small and efficient hypervisor. Ukvm and Solo5 provides such a system and if I remember correctly IncludeOS can boot and shutdown in less than 10ms on those systems. So yeah, it would be interesting to see this on a serverless platform. Hit me up if you have a serverless platform. :-)
- justicezyx 8y agoHad the same impression. I was surprised for a long time there hasn't been any such project under the k8s umbrella.