wayfinder VS nanos

1. We build unikernels using the 'kraft container' which is Docker/OCI image[0][1] which has the necessary build tools to build Unikraft unikernels. We plug this into Concourse which builds thousands of combinations of Unikernels[2] as part of our code review process[3]. In addition to this, we have on-going research and tooling to help automatically discover permutations of Unikernel builds[4].

2. Really great question, but mostly you can expect the same functionality of an application when it runs as a unikernel because the application "thinks" it's still running in a traditional OS environment -- as it should be. Check out this documentation[5] (after step 7) about porting, it has snippets about where the boundary sometimes breaks.

3. Well, general-purposes are not suited for deployment environments. Installing Gentoo (or Ubuntu, Debian, for that matter) is a waste of resources if you only SSH in once to install your desired application.

[0]: https://unikraft.org/docs/usage/install/#docker

[1]: https://github.com/unikraft/kraft/tree/staging/package/docke...

[2]: https://builds.unikraft.io

[3]: https://unikraft.org/docs/contributing/review-process/#stage...

[4]: https://github.com/lancs-net/wayfinder

[5]: https://unikraft.org/docs/develop/porting/#providing-build-f...

Erlang on Xen was most definitely an inspiration behind what we're working on with https://nanos.org .

I am a bit confused, there are three sites:

* https://nanos.org/

* https://nanovms.com/

* https://ops.city/

And I am not sure what "thing" I am using. Is there some disambiguation? I know is OPS is the orchestration CLI, but I am confused at the difference between Nanos and NanoVMs. What should I call the section of my README that deals with this tech? Currently gone with Nanos/OPS but I am confused.

I work with https://nanos.org && https://ops.city - we can run thousands of these on commodity hardware.

Unik was just a build tool that utilized other projects like Rump, Mirage, IncludeOS, etc. It's now dead since Solo pivoted a very long time ago to service mesh/api gateways.

The GoRump port they use was from us and then we realized we needed to code our own from the ground up for many reasons so we wrote https://nanos.org (runs as a go unikernel in GCP).

A couple unikernel projects that caught my eye in the past may be of interest to you. I have no experience with them, so I can't speak to their quality though.

https://unikraft.org/

https://github.com/nanovms/nanos

Definitely agree with the top part, however, I should note that, ops, the tool's, whole existence is to create disk images and upload them to any cloud, any hypervisor.

In particular, both https://ops.city && https://nanos.org are Go unikernels running on GCP and their deploys take just a few seconds to push out. AWS can be even faster cause we skip the s3 upload part. We also have lots of people using Azure which would be utilizing vhdx.

I'm with that organization that works on https://nanos.org and https://ops.city . If you aren't a software engineer but still would like to use unikernels you're in luck - we also have a package repository at https://repo.ops.city/ (running as a go unikernel on GCP) that will allow you to run and deploy pre-made applications. If you don't see something that you'd like to us there's also a way of importing docker containers into unikernels via ops which works for most (but not all) applications.