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I'm hoping we're be able to port libuv to IncludeOS (which should be doable, much like libuv IncludeOS is eventdriven). Then we should be able to get Node up an

by perbu 8y ago

I'm hoping we're be able to port libuv to IncludeOS (which should be doable, much like libuv IncludeOS is eventdriven). Then we should be able to get Node up and running. Running Node.js through IncludeOS on Nabla could be interesting in a "FaaS" context. Last I heard the author of Rumprun has picked up beer brewing full time and isn't interested in maintaining the project. It would be great if someone where to pick it up. OSv is also very relevant. They provide a much richer and more compatible runtime environment compared to IncludeOS (I think they even have zfs). And OSv is pretty active these days, so if you looking for a way to run some high performance stuff OSv is worth looking into.

hardwaresofton 8y ago
Thanks for shedding some light on the possible status of the Rumprun maintainer! Hope he's happy brewing beers :) Thanks for mentioning OSv[0], I'd never heard about it before. I'm excited to see what happens with Nabla, I read the accompanying paper and was pretty excited about the possibilities. Nabla's greatest strength is it's ergonomics, IMO, though rumprun comes close (someone took some time to make dockerized containers for it). [EDIT] - looking at OSv's (primary?) tool capstan[1], I'm not sure it's quite the same, it seems more like linuxkit[2] than rumprun. Maybe my intuition is wrong, but it seems much more like you're bringing along a stripped down OS than you're writing a program meant to interact with a shared unikernel. The distinction is so fuzzy in my head I'm not sure there is one, but it feels different. [0]: http://osv.io/ http://osv.io/ [1]: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan [2]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit
- ricarkol1 8y ago
  Nabla containers actually use rumprun under the covers. Here is the rumprun fork that supports a solo5 backend: https://github.com/nabla-containers/rumprun https://github.com/nabla-containers/rumprun

by perbu 8y ago

hardwaresofton 8y ago

Thanks for shedding some light on the possible status of the Rumprun maintainer! Hope he's happy brewing beers :) Thanks for mentioning OSv[0], I'd never heard about it before. I'm excited to see what happens with Nabla, I read the accompanying paper and was pretty excited about the possibilities. Nabla's greatest strength is it's ergonomics, IMO, though rumprun comes close (someone took some time to make dockerized containers for it). [EDIT] - looking at OSv's (primary?) tool capstan[1], I'm not sure it's quite the same, it seems more like linuxkit[2] than rumprun. Maybe my intuition is wrong, but it seems much more like you're bringing along a stripped down OS than you're writing a program meant to interact with a shared unikernel. The distinction is so fuzzy in my head I'm not sure there is one, but it feels different. [0]: http://osv.io/ http://osv.io/ [1]: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan https://github.com/cloudius-systems/capstan [2]: https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit

ricarkol1 8y ago
Nabla containers actually use rumprun under the covers. Here is the rumprun fork that supports a solo5 backend: https://github.com/nabla-containers/rumprun https://github.com/nabla-containers/rumprun