gilbraltar
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gilbraltar | unik | |
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1 | 11 | |
57 | 2,687 | |
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10.0 | 0.0 | |
over 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
C | Go | |
ISC License | Apache License 2.0 |
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gilbraltar
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Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
It is possible to run Mirage in ARM under for example KVM or using the seccomp target.
There is as well an experimental bare-metal target for raspberry pi 4 called gilbraltar https://github.com/dinosaure/gilbraltar. A big obstacle there is the device drivers. It is very cool to run bare metal on an rpi4, but it would be cool to be able use the network interface too.
unik
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Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
And on that note, I just found this list of UniKernel projects:
http://unikernel.org/projects/
I have especially had hopes for the UniK [1] project, as it was/is written in Go AFAIK. I see now it incorporates work from the Mirage project as well. Not sure what is the status of this project anymore though.
[1] https://github.com/solo-io/unik
- In Praise of Plan 9
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A future without containers? ( thoughts )
Wow, just now seeing this topic. I work for a cloud company hosted in AWS. We started out, Netflix/Spotify style microservices. We were all on ec2 images generate by packer (and later with AWS Image Factory). When Docker hit, we kicked the tires but never did anything with it beyond using it for running unit tests, and later, infrastructure tests. 5 years ago, during a hackathon, our little group began experimenting with Unikernels, or library operating systems. Interestingly enough, these Unikernels were all stripped down BSD kernels. OSv is FreeBSD based, and Rumprun is NetBSD based. Services running in EC2 on Unikernels would spin up and start sending and receiving traffic before the AWS EC2 healthchecks completed. They are blazing fast! Only problem in 2017, was the tooling. It would have taken too much effort to use Unikernals with our infrastructure. As soon as they start making Unikernels that can run Java bytecode like native code, the fate of containerization will be sealed, IMO. We could get basic JVM webservers running on OSv, but not Cassandra, not Kafka, not yet. OSv now runs on Firecracker, but I have not tried it out, yet. Some links if you are interested: OSv: https://osv.io Rumprun: https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun We used this tooling during the Hackathon, but doesn't look like it has been touched in 3 years: https://github.com/solo-io/unik Unikraft Unikernel Dev kit: https://unikraft.org/ And don't forget Firecracker running in Kubernetes https://www.weave.works/oss/firekube/ And of course, being a FreeBSD subreddit, let's not forget FreeBSD on Firecracker https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecracker.html
- Ask HN: What’s the most secure OS for servers? Why?
- A platform for automating unikernel & MicroVM compilation and deployment
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Is the madness ever going to end?
Crazy idea that I'm sure isn't an original thought: instead of adapting the languages to deal with abstracting the idiosyncrasies of each OS, change the OSes to expose a universal API to make everything else lighter.
I guess that's also kinda Docker or QEMU or V8, but also https://github.com/solo-io/unik if you think about it differently.
In other words: hey, Lisp Machines were an excellent idea back then, but they still are. Maybe someday we'll have a V8 co-processor. More fun reading: https://lobste.rs/s/2poahh/what_i_could_not_undiscover_about
- UniK – The Unikernel and MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
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Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?
The HN conversations around unikernels suggest that they're not ready for production yet [0] but feel free to set that record straight.
In the meantime, a handful of organisations/individuals seem to be working on becoming "Docker for unikernels". That's probably an unfair description, but they're aiming to produce tools for building and managing unikernels: Unikraft [1], NanoVMs/Nanos [2], Unik [3]. Other orgs are producing unikernel-based OSs and VMs [4].
What is your toolset for building and managing unikernels? What have you learned?
Bonus question: is Unik dead? [5]
[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=unikernel&sort=byPopularity&type=story
[1] https://unikraft.org/
[2] https://github.com/nanovms/nanos
[3] https://github.com/solo-io/unik/
[4] http://unikernel.org/projects/
[5] https://github.com/solo-io/unik/issues/172
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Demystifying Open-Source Orchestration of Unikernels With Unik
UniK will compile and deploy its own 30 MB unikernel. This unikernel is the Unik Instance Listener. The Instance Listener uses udp broadcast to detect (the IP address) and bootstrap instances running on Virtualbox.
What are some alternatives?
solo5 - A sandboxed execution environment for unikernels
unikraft - A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock best-in-class performance, security primitives and efficiency savings.
HaLVM - The Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM): GHC running on Xen
nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment
create-react-app-zero - All of Create React App, none of the dependencies
linuxkit - A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
Telegram-web-z - Telegram Web Z, GPL v3
rumprun - The Rumprun unikernel and toolchain for various platforms
app-helloworld-cpp - kraft-ready repo for building c++ applications with Unikraft
eggos - A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal
hermitux - A binary-compatible unikernel