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Makes me wonder, what happened to Unikernels? Are people still working on them? Between containers and serverless functions as a service moving to the cloud, i
by antod 3y ago
Makes me wonder, what happened to Unikernels? Are people still working on them?
Between containers and serverless functions as a service moving to the cloud, it seems they ran out of what little momentum they had.
http://unikernel.org/ http://unikernel.org/
- nine_k 3y agoThe key enabler of market share is running unmodified software. Few can be bothered to recompile their software for a unikernel, or switch to a unikernel-specific runtime provided by a third party (compatibility, CVE reaction time, etc). I suspect large cloud providers may be running their custom internal stuff using unikernels and reaping resource economy and security benefits, without us knowing much about that.
- wmf 3y agoPeople bothered to containerize their software because the benefits offset the work. Unikernels shouldn't be much harder but they haven't successfully made that argument.
- arccy 3y agothe management interfaces for VMs suck compared to all the advances made for containers, so unikernels have to be quite compelling for people to suffer the worse ux to adopt them.
- gorkish 3y agoIf your programs are all unikenels running on a hypervisor, havent you just reinvented a regular operating system with more and stronger abstractions?
- Bnjoroge 3y agofolks at https://unikraft.io https://unikraft.io just released their (closed) beta. seems like there's still interest.