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I'm not so sure that unikernels are the way forward. And in general, angry rants about technologies from the CEO of a company entirely devoted to some competing
by skywhopper 7y ago
I'm not so sure that unikernels are the way forward. And in general, angry rants about technologies from the CEO of a company entirely devoted to some competing technology is generally best taken with a large grain of salt.
Undoubtedly there are risks to having the flexibility that a full OS provides, but the benefits to troubleshooting, incident-response, resource-sharing, and just plain operational flexibility are huge. Until there's a good story for managing unikernel-based microVMs at scale, they aren't going to make a dent in container-world.
I suspect the path we'll actually see pursued is more along the lines of Bottlerocket (https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket), which is basically the Linux kernel plus a containerd API that works with Kubernetes but doesn't expose nearly as much surface area.