Unikernels were hard. key word: were

Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by ianseyler on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:28PM (#50037826)

It’s good to see this! I’m offering a cloud service to host unikernels based on my BareMetal kernel.

~$0.005 CAD/h for a small network-enabled VM with 4MiB of RAM and no disk.

https://baremetal.returninfinity.com

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by abstractbeliefs on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:01PM (#50038355)

This is really fun to see again. I first played with baremetal around ~2013 when I was a university student. I really enjoyed message passing between small computers with the network API where you just got to write ethernet frames, no messing with any higher protocols.

Is this kernel the same one still?

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by ianseyler on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:14PM (#50038832)

I’m glad you remember it! I’ve been plugging away at it for quite some time now.

The kernel is mainly the same - just modifications for running under Firecracker.

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by para_parolu on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:59AM (#50040422)

I wonder if tailscale node can live there.

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by ianseyler on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:15AM (#50043549)

Potentially! It really depends on building it to run on BareMetal.

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by athrowaway3z on Sunday October 11, 2026 @05:29AM (#50041306)

I might be interested in this because that is cheap, but what exactly are the networking rules/costs? ip4/6, bandwidth, egress, throughput, connection limits?

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Re:Unikernels were hard. key word: were by ianseyler on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:15AM (#50043541)

Can you try it again? I see some valid logins via Google.

None yet - this is a beta so bandwidth pricing will come later.

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