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On a related note. I wonder whatever happened to unikernels and why they haven't become the norm.
by asimpletune 3y ago
On a related note. I wonder whatever happened to unikernels and why they haven't become the norm.
- nubinetwork 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_d...
- reegnz 3y agounikernel is not the same as microkernel. I've found these after some quick googling: https://unikraft.org/ https://unikraft.org/ https://hermitcore.org/ https://hermitcore.org/ https://nanos.org/ https://nanos.org/ Seems to be a living concept still, just not in the mainstream.
- flaminHotSpeedo 3y agoThere are mainstream use cases, particularly for cloud providers who want lightweight runtimes with hypervisor managed isolation. The only "example" I can think of off hand is Firecracker, but I'm not 100% confident that Firecracker is technically a unikernels. My guess is that there's a number of unikernel implementations behind closed doors that see heavy use