[HN Gopher] Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying light...
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Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure
applications
Author : eyberg
Score : 16 points
Date : 2025-08-01 14:22 UTC (1 days ago)
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| perbu wrote:
| Unikernels are quite an intriguing concept. They'll be re-
| discovered every five years, like programmers keep re-discovering
| functional programming.
| wiradikusuma wrote:
| Wake me up when you can unikernel-ize a Java framework like
| Quarkus or Spring.
| eyberg wrote:
| https://github.com/nanovms/ops-examples/tree/master/java/04-...
| rwmj wrote:
| Running Java applications was the original mission of OSv
| (https://osv.io/). Reading the website now they seem to have
| pivoted to running unmodified Linux applications.
| eyberg wrote:
| The rabbit hole goes even deeper. Georgios was thinking about
| this with Jikes even earlier:
| https://gousios.org/pub/gousios-mscthesis.pdf
| wiradikusuma wrote:
| Does it mean it can run Java compiled to Native Image?
| eyberg wrote:
| It doesn't necessarily mean that but yes you most
| definitely can run native images - another example showing
| that: https://github.com/nanovms/ops-
| examples/tree/master/java/07-... . Both of these pair very
| well with unikernels. Especially quarkus has excellent boot
| time and low mem usage.
| DmitryOlshansky wrote:
| Why not full VM with JIT? Seems much easier and more
| compatible with apps out there.
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