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Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead by atq2119 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @07:51AM (#21920688)
Title doesn't match the article and contradicts the article's contents. The article talks about using unikernels with containers, not instead of them.

BTW, I kind of assume they mean running unikernels inside containers as opposed to running containers on unikernels. The article seems a bit self-contradictory about that.

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Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead by eyberg on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:23AM (#21920810)
IBM/redhat have a few unikernel related projects going on and I'm guessing this is referring to nabla containers (or he might be aware of ukl).

The only reason to stuff an unikernel into a container is to make the transition easier for k8s/container holdouts. You'll take a perf hit and still be stuck with all the security problems containers have. Other than that at least in my incredibly biased opinion it makes no sense.

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Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead by Matthias247 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:27AM (#21920841)
Quote from the article:

> At the same time, many containers in the years ahead will be deployed on unikernel systems, says Ferris

I however can't see how this would make sense.

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