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But what's the benefit of cutting out the full-blown operating system? It's rare that such things would be the bottleneck.
by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
But what's the benefit of cutting out the full-blown operating system? It's rare that such things would be the bottleneck.
- pjmlp 3y agoPerformance and security, basically. Similar to trying to run containers bare metal directly on top of type 1 hypervisors, except unikernels are designed for this purpose.
- fhuici 3y agoAt least for cloud deployments you don't need a full blown OS when all you want to do is run apps like NGINX or Redis. If you use a unikernel instead, then you severely (orders of magnitude) reduce cold boot times, memory consumption, server density (thousands on hw-isolated instances on a single server) and TCB.
- lazzlazzlazz 3y agoMakes sense. Thank you.