Posts Tagged ‘Unikernels’
The DXC Blogs – Unikernels
Originally published internally 26 Jan 2016: Last week Docker Inc acquired Cambridge based Unikernel System Ltd, which has got a lot of people asking ‘what’s a unikernel?’, a question that’s well covered in the linked piece. Going back a few years I covered the launch of Mirage OS, which is the basis for what Unikernel Systems […]
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At the recent DockerCon event in Austin Docker Inc announced two significant open source projects, Moby and LinuxKit. Moby essentially marks the split of Docker the open source project from Docker Inc the company, with the docker/docker GitHub repo moved to moby/moby. LinuxKit provides a set of tools to build ‘custom Linux subsystems that only […]
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Background The last two interviews that I’ve done for InfoQ have been with Anil Mahavapeddy and Bryan Cantrill, and in both cases we talked about unikernels. Anil is very much pro unikernels, whilst Bryan takes the opposing view. A long and rambling Twitter thread about oncoming architecture diversity in Docker images took a turn into the unikernel […]
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Tags: Anil Madhavapeddy, Bryan Cantrill, Docker, InfoQ, OCAML, unikernel, Unikernels
Three days with Bryan Cantrill
On my first day with Bryan Cantrill he did a wonderful (and very amusing) presentation on Debugging Microservices in Production on the containers track at QCon SF. On my second day with Bryan Cantrill we talked about Containers, Unikernels, Linux, Triton, Illumos, Virtualization and Node.js – it was something of a geekfest[1]. On my third day with Bryan […]
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Tags: Bryan Cantrill, containers, Docker, Illumos, Linux, node.js, Triton, Unikernels
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