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Isn't this, in a very roundabout way, an echo of docker? Or at least the abstraction Docker relies on?
by lordleft 4y ago
Isn't this, in a very roundabout way, an echo of docker? Or at least the abstraction Docker relies on?
- agtorre 4y agoI definitely see this as an alternative route from docker containers / WASM.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoYes, containers and unikernels are possible answers to the same issue. If you consider an application running on a virtualised OS you have three layers: hypervisor, os, application with some duplication of functionality between the hypervisor and the os. From there, if you want to simplify you can either add hypervisor-like isolation functionalities to the OS (containers) or move the little that’s actually needed from the OS into the application (unikernels). That’s why Docker bought MirageOS a few years ago.