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Show HN: Unikraft Cloud Platform: Unikernels-as-a-Service

34 points by nderjung 5y ago

chaz6 5y ago
I clicked on the link to twitter on the home page (https://twitter.com/UnikraftCloud https://twitter.com/UnikraftCloud) and twitter tells me that the account has been suspended for violating the rules. What is up with that? Edit: The GitHub icon goes to https://twitter.com/unikraft https://twitter.com/unikraft which is also suspended. This should probably be a link to github.com.
c7DJTLrn 5y ago
This site is extremely sparse on information. I know what a unikernel is but it's not clear how it reduces cloud spending other than perhaps a small reduction in overhead. I'd like to know what kind of work would be needed to make a traditional app run under this unikernel. Assuming it is a genuine unikernel and this isn't marketing.
ThinkBeat 5y ago
I love the unikernel approach and I have been investing in researching it. I have not heard of this company before but that doesnt mean much. I have fallen in love with Mirage OS and the world around it. I am curious what the integration is between Kubernetes and the unikernel applications? Admittedly I am not all familiar with K8s but I have not read about something like that before. I am interested in learning more.
tjmgregory 5y ago
Have been having a fiddle getting setup with this - build is fast, output is tiny, am considering introducing to my company but nervous of it being young. What have folks’ experience being introducing new tech at their jobs?
- erulabs 5y ago
  If it works fantastically, no one will care. If there is even a single hiccup, then its "your" solution and squint, eh, not so sure. The only way to introduce new tech to a reasonably sized group is to first get group by in. Do everything you can to make sure it's not your idea, but something the group agrees on.
derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Is it closer to the firecracker VM or a unikernel in Go or Rust?
- iou 5y ago
  It sounds closer to the former (as that's KVM) https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft What isn't clear is how it inlines kernelspace, whether that surface area is optimized down etc
  - iou 5y ago
    Ah this diagram helps explain more http://docs.unikraft.org/intro.html http://docs.unikraft.org/intro.html
    - ignoramous 5y ago
      EuroSys '21 presentation: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/74EXqOCt_Sw https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/74EXqOCt_Sw

34 points by nderjung 5y ago

I clicked on the link to twitter on the home page (https://twitter.com/UnikraftCloud https://twitter.com/UnikraftCloud) and twitter tells me that the account has been suspended for violating the rules. What is up with that? Edit: The GitHub icon goes to https://twitter.com/unikraft https://twitter.com/unikraft which is also suspended. This should probably be a link to github.com.

c7DJTLrn 5y ago

This site is extremely sparse on information. I know what a unikernel is but it's not clear how it reduces cloud spending other than perhaps a small reduction in overhead. I'd like to know what kind of work would be needed to make a traditional app run under this unikernel. Assuming it is a genuine unikernel and this isn't marketing.

ThinkBeat 5y ago

I love the unikernel approach and I have been investing in researching it. I have not heard of this company before but that doesnt mean much. I have fallen in love with Mirage OS and the world around it. I am curious what the integration is between Kubernetes and the unikernel applications? Admittedly I am not all familiar with K8s but I have not read about something like that before. I am interested in learning more.

tjmgregory 5y ago

Have been having a fiddle getting setup with this - build is fast, output is tiny, am considering introducing to my company but nervous of it being young. What have folks’ experience being introducing new tech at their jobs?

erulabs 5y ago
If it works fantastically, no one will care. If there is even a single hiccup, then its "your" solution and squint, eh, not so sure. The only way to introduce new tech to a reasonably sized group is to first get group by in. Do everything you can to make sure it's not your idea, but something the group agrees on.

derekzhouzhen 5y ago

Is it closer to the firecracker VM or a unikernel in Go or Rust?

iou 5y ago
It sounds closer to the former (as that's KVM) https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft What isn't clear is how it inlines kernelspace, whether that surface area is optimized down etc
- iou 5y ago
  Ah this diagram helps explain more http://docs.unikraft.org/intro.html http://docs.unikraft.org/intro.html
  - ignoramous 5y ago
    EuroSys '21 presentation: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/74EXqOCt_Sw https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/74EXqOCt_Sw