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click | unikraft | |
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4 | 26 | |
726 | 2,303 | |
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4.2 | 9.8 | |
almost 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
C++ | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
It's possible to create an IPSec + firewall based on the Click Modular Router[0] and run this on top of Unikraft[1].
[0]: https://github.com/kohler/click/wiki/IPsecEncap (and other IPSec* elements)
[1]: https://github.com/unikraft/app-click
It could make for an interesting tutorial with a full Click-based IPSec router though! :)
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Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?
Many unikernel projects were ahead of their time. For example ClickOS [0] is ~7 years old but all its ideas still sound innovative. Someone could build an entire business on top of network function virtualization, using unikernels as an efficient sandboxing mechanism.
I’m not sure why unikernels have not caught on widely. I suspect their time has yet to come for some applications, but at least for NFV and sandboxing, I would bet on solutions using eBPF or XDP with WASM for sandboxing.
[0] https://github.com/kohler/click
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Signed Char Lotte
Source: https://github.com/kohler/click/blob/6fa978f0188bd0b8a266f65...
Context: This is the source code of the Click Modular Router, a system for implementing packet processing logic with a graph-like DSL. Both primitives, and certain complex logic, are implemented in C++; however, as this has to be able to run as a Linux kernel module, it can't use the C++ standard library, and has its own stdlib.
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unikraft
- KraftCloud
- Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
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Building a unikernel that runs WebAssembly – part 1
You should also probably check out Unikraft (https://unikraft.org) , supports many languages/apps, x86/ARM64 and QEMU/Firecracker. Is also able to run an ELF built under Linux as a unikernel (see https://unikraft.org/guides/bincompat). Discord is at https://unikraft.org/discord .
- Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit
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What Is a Unikernel?
>"For performance-oriented UDP-based apps, much of the OS networking stack is useless:
the app could simply use the driver API, much like DPDK-style applications already do.
There is currently no way to easily remove just the network stack but not the entire network sub-system from standard OSes."
This page is a great read for any current or future OS developer...
Related:
"Unikraft is a fast, secure and open-source Unikernel Development Kit":
https://unikraft.org/
"Unikraft is an automated system for building specialized OSes known as unikernels."
https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft
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Build Your Own Docker with Linux Namespaces, Cgroups, and Chroot
unikernel is not the same microkernel.
I've found these after some quick googling:
https://unikraft.org/
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I don't believe in the success of wasm
Check out https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft
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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
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Linux as single app ?
and Unikraft
What are some alternatives?
nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment
docs - The front page and documentation for the Unikraft Open-Source Project.
mirage - MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels
pykraft - Python library for configuring and building unikernels
unik - The Unikernel & MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
app-click - Click Modular Router on Unikraft
linuxkit - A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
hermitux - A binary-compatible unikernel
distroless - 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
riscv-rust - RISC-V processor emulator written in Rust+WASM