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I'm wondering if anyone has seen any attempts at creating unikernels that work with major scripting languages like PHP, Python or Ruby. I know this would seem

I'm wondering if anyone has seen any attempts at creating unikernels that work with major scripting languages like PHP, Python or Ruby. I know this would seem a bit like a contradiction to the ethos of unikernels, but it would give the benefits of unikernels (i.e. smaller attack surface) to a much larger audience.

BBC-vs-neolibs 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=29427884&goto=item%3Fid%3D29427449%2329427884 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=29427884&goto=item%3Fi...
tjansen 5y ago
That should be possible if you use a web server like Apache as main application and then link the module that your scripting language requires. Not sure whether NanoVMs already support it though.
nderjung 5y ago
Hey, Unikraft has support for running the Python[0] and Ruby[1] runtimes as unikernels. We're about to release PHP too :) Watch this space! [1]: https://github.com/unikraft/app-python3 https://github.com/unikraft/app-python3 [1]: https://github.com/unikraft/app-ruby https://github.com/unikraft/app-ruby
- tarjei_huse 5y ago
  Cool!
kitd 5y ago
NanosVM has a concept called Packages [1], ie prebuilt images that package a language runtime or application component eg Redis. It looks like they have packages for various scripting languages. [1] https://nanovms.gitbook.io/ops/packages https://nanovms.gitbook.io/ops/packages