#rumprun past even atoms, from semaphore off shore Tübingen

#netbsd #finneganswake

The Rise and Fall of the Operating System

"We ended up building a #unikernel based on the drivers offered by rump kernels via rumpkernel.org: Rumprun. We were not trying to build an #OS-like layer but one day simply realized that we could build one which would just work, with minimal effort. The noteworthiness of the Rumprun unikernel does not come from the fact that existing software such as Nginx, PHP, and mpg123 can be cross-compiled in the normal fashion and then run directly on the cloud or on bare metal. The noteworthiness comes from the fact that the implementation is a few thousand lines of code ... plus drivers. The ratio of drivers to “operating system” is on the order of 100:1, so there is very little operating system in there. The #Rumprun implementation is that of an orchestrating system, which conducts the drivers."

#bsd #rumpkernel
http://www.fixup.fi/misc/usenix-login-2015/login_oct15_02_kantee.pdf

Was anderes, auf was mich der #36c3 aufmerksam gemacht hat: #Unikernel. Das ist ein sehr interessantes Konzept und scheint eine richtige Microservice-Alternative zu dem #Docker Wahnsinn zu sein.

Da scheint es schon ein paar zu geben, nicht nur das auf dem 36c3 vorgestellte #MirageOS, sondern auch #IncludeOS, #NanoVM, #RumpRun, etc. Welchen will man denn zum kennenlernen nehmen?

Übersicht über Unikernel: https://github.com/cetic/unikernels/blob/master/README.md