Unleashing the power of unikernels with unikraft
Simon Kuenzer, Sharan Santhanam, Y. Volchkov, Florian Schmidt, Felipe Huici, Joel Nider, Mike Rapoport, Costin Lupu · 2019
Recent research has shown that unikernels, lightweight virtual machines tailored to specific applications, have great potential in terms of performance, tiny boot times, small memory consumption, and a reduced trusted compute base. Creating and optimizing them, however, is currently a painful, time-consuming process that often needs redoing for every application. With Unikraft, we introduce a system for automatically building unikernels that drastically reduces this time without negatively impacting performance.