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mirage
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Gokrazy – Go Appliances
Interesting, and thanks.
I didn't know about those. I kind of thought you may have used MirageOS, which I had read about earlier. It is done in OCaml.
- Mirage – A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems
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What's Zig got that C, Rust and Go don't have? [video]
Unix system programming in OCaml (2014)
https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/
"MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms."
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PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model
That was/is part of the promise of the whole unikernel thing, no?
https://mirage.io/ or similar could then let you boot your database. That said, it's not really taken off from what I can tell, so I'm guessing there's more to it than that.
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Writing an OS in Rust to run on RISC-V
MirageOS is not Rust, but in the ballpark!
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Container runtime as a static binary?
OCaml MirageOS? https://mirage.io/
- OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out
- Ask HN: Operating Systems built with functional languages?
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Is there an operating systems that is a runtime of a programming language?
MirageOS is a runtime for OCaml to create unikernels. They describe themselves as "library operating system". Probably not quite what you were asking for, but I think it's quite interesting for certain use cases (e.g. running services as standalone unikernels in VMs or embedded devices instead of "traditional" programs on top of a general purpose OS).
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":
"Unikraft is an automated system for building specialized OSes known as unikernels."
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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:
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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?
oberon-riscv - Oberon RISC-V port, based on Samuel Falvo's RISC-V compiler and Peter de Wachter's Project Norebo. Part of an academic project to evaluate Project Oberon on RISC-V.
nanos - A kernel designed to run one and only one application in a virtualized environment
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
unik - The Unikernel & MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
linuxkit - A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers
Mezzano - An operating system written in Common Lisp
distroless - 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
console - a debugger for async rust!
riscv-rust - RISC-V processor emulator written in Rust+WASM
Lupine-Linux - Linux in Unikernel Clothing
rusty-hermit - Hermit for Rust. [Moved to: https://github.com/hermit-os/hermit-rs]