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NanoVMs – Run your applications faster, safer and with less cost

• peter_d_sherman 5y ago
  >"Why Use unikernels? Unikernels are fast, secure [PDS: More secure than entire OS distros -- but still not provably absolutely secure -- a "step in the right direction" towards better security], increase server density and eliminate devops. Unikernels can boot 2 orders of magnitude faster than docker and run software up to 20% faster. >"Unikernels by design help prevent many types of remote code execution attacks and you can run thousands of them on commodity hardware." >"Massive VM Consolidation We can provision hundreds to thousands of virtual machines on the same hardware." PDS: Opinion: A step forward from AWS/Azure and most other current cloud hosting offerings... Also, more energy efficient/environmentally friendly, more "green" -- than running an entire OS in addition to an application -- possibly up to one or two orders of magnitude more energy efficient, depending on the application, how it's coded, and what it requires the underlying OS to do, and if those underlying OS dependencies can be removed, thus removing the need to run the underlying OS, thus saving all of that energy...