Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels

Re:Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels by filleokus on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:30AM (#26957292)

Oh, this looks really cool! I was just research the other day how I could make a RPI running some simple LED-blinking app boot as fast as possible, this looks quite much faster than trying to strip down linux.

For someone who doesn't know that much about unikernels, is it possible (or a good idea) to run a multi threaded / multi process application on there? I'm thinking of something like a python app + nginx reverse proxy, or a Go App using the built in http server?

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Re:Unikraft – Fast, Specialized Unikernels by felipehuici on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:24PM (#26959556)

Hey, yes, you could and in some cases it might make sense (e.g., you need to do some packet processing as one app but you also want the control plane as another app in the same unikernel). Generally speaking unikernels have a single memory address space so don't support (or don't easily support) processes, so the apps would run on separate threads.

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