Re: Unikernel build and deploy systems?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi John,

John Soo <address@hidden> skribis:

> I have a more conceptual question than technical. I am really curious
> about unikernels and I know there is work to support the Hurd. So my
> thinking is: would it be possible to make a build and deployment
> system for unikernels? Advantages I see coming from guix are
> provenance tracking built in, a growing support for deployment systems
> and standardized build environments and steps. Major caveats are that
> I’m quite unfamiliar with virtualization technology and
> unikernels. They just are so tempting to me.

I agree that conceptually the two ideas work well together: if you could
declare what your unikernel contains and have it built and deployed in a
reproducible fashion, that’d be neat.

Now, there’s quite some distance between theory and practice, so…  :-)

Ludo’.