rumprun

The Rumprun unikernel and toolchain for various platforms (by rumpkernel)

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  • A future without containers? ( thoughts )
    6 projects | /r/freebsd | 10 Nov 2022
    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?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2022
  • The big idea around unikernels
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2021
    Great entrant in the space that is actually usable:

    https://www.unikraft.org

    Promising project that's inactive but was one of the first ones I found with reasonable ergonomics and no lock-in to a specific language that I didn't use:

    https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun

    Unfortunately it looks to be unmaintained as of now, but I expect the examples still work etc (https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun/issues/135)

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rumpkernel/rumprun is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of rumprun is C.


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