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I totally agree about both statements. My next hands on and post on that topic will be about moving from Ubuntu to CoreOS and what it implies for our existing i

I totally agree about both statements. My next hands on and post on that topic will be about moving from Ubuntu to CoreOS and what it implies for our existing infrastructure (I'm the article author)

walterbell 12y ago
Unikernels (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7053638, https://galois.com/project/halvm/ https://galois.com/project/halvm/) are working on related research issues, from the bottom up. We need a cross-distro dependency manager that can generate app-liance images for baremetal, lxc, kvm, aws/xen, vmware, azure/hyperv, illumos/bsd/zones, etc. Such a dependency manager could encode management-related policy (e.g. networking) into an image manifest that could be parsed by deployment tools. As an image format, OVF was ratified by DMTF and may have useful concepts, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format