Nanos – unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized env
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Re: Nanos – unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized env
#2May be it is just me, but documentation (The Book) is confusing, after skimming through, seems like it is running customized not linux kernel on top of virtualization host ?
Re: Nanos – unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized env
#3May be it is just me, but documentation (The Book) is confusing, after skimming through, seems like it is running customized not linux kernel on top of virtualization host ?
Somehow missed this but yes https://nanos.org doesn't have great docs right now. The best docs can be found on https://ops.city which is the front-end user facing website that shows you how to actually use it with another tools 'ops'.
https://nanos.org which is for the kernel itself, is indeed not Linux. It's a custom kernel we wrote from the ground up.
The basic premise is to run one and only one application as a vm - typically in a public cloud environment but can run on things like rpi4 as well. Doing so allows us to run things like go/rust workloads 2x fast on google cloud and 3x fast on aws. Takes ~20 seconds to deploy.
One of our principal kernel engineers discusses some some of it's salient points in this video:
Re: Nanos – unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized env
#4May be it is just me, but documentation (The Book) is confusing, after skimming through, seems like it is running customized not linux kernel on top of virtualization host ?
Somehow missed this but yes https://nanos.org doesn't have great docs right now. The best docs can be found on https://ops.city which is the front-end user facing website that shows you how to actually use it with another tools 'ops'. https://nanos.org which is for the kernel itself, is indeed not Linux. It's a custom kernel we wrote from the ground up. The basic premise is to run one and only one application as a vm…
Seems like you are comparing nanos to linux kernel and not nanos to existing unikernels.
Re: Nanos – unikernel running one and only one application in a virtualized env
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Somehow missed this but yes https://nanos.org doesn't have great docs right now. The best docs can be found on https://ops.city which is the front-end user facing website that shows you how to actually use it with another tools 'ops'. https://nanos.org which is for the kernel itself, is indeed not Linux. It's a custom kernel we wrote from the ground up. The basic premise is to run one and only one application as a vm…
Seems like you are comparing nanos to linux kernel and not nanos to existing unikernels.
Most people we come across have never even heard of unikernels so it doesn't make a ton of sense to provide those comparisons but I see the nanos page doesn't have any information on that so we'll look at adding some - thanks for the suggestion!