Re:IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead
by nordsieck on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @09:13AM
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> putting an app in a unikernel may be about as clever as possible for a great many software engineers.
I think the traditional argument is that, with a unikernel, you can cut out a lot of the traditional OS systems that you may not care about. In theory, this could reduce your overall system complexity.
This may not really be a difference in the future anyhow: with the success of BPF programs, it may be possible to get pretty close to a unikernel while still sticking with largely vanilla Linux.
I think the traditional argument is that, with a unikernel, you can cut out a lot of the traditional OS systems that you may not care about. In theory, this could reduce your overall system complexity.
This may not really be a difference in the future anyhow: with the success of BPF programs, it may be possible to get pretty close to a unikernel while still sticking with largely vanilla Linux.