Go Unikernels

The first half challenges the audience with questions as to why unikernels have been cropping up lately and the second half covers Go unikernels.

Transcript

1. Go Unikernels
3. cross-compile existing applications down into small light-weight secure virtual machines
4. single address space single process
5. history
7. where does virtualization come from? IBM - 1960s
8. lost in the wilderness
10. where do containers come from?
11. bill joy/chroot - 1979
12. freebsd jails Poul- Henning Kamp - 1996
13. solaris - 2005
14. lxc - 2008
15. why did virtualization win?
16. containers are not virtualization
17. rationale
20. IT Systems Administrator Devops SRE probably doesn’t code probably codes The Ops Spectrum
21. should this even exist?
22. What is Configuration Management Really?
24. Is IoT connected toasters or?
25. Shit VCs Say "I don’t think server sales are growing."
26. 400 Million New Servers Needed by 2020
27. future
28. You’re Running Linux on That Thing?
31. New Paradigm
32. Deploy Software Not Systems
33. Configure Software Not Systems
34. and now for something completely different
35. unikernel spectrum "posix" language specific domain specific osv rump kernel mirage clickos
44. Go Unikernels
45. the search for a go unikernel
49. RumpKernel
50. putting the pieces together
51. import "syscall"
52. import "liquor"
53. stuck at 1.5
54. bootstrap
55. new goos - rump run
56. Build Tags
57. auto-generated
58. matching upstream
59. Problems
60. virtual memory
61. Memory "Protection" a.k.a 30-40% Performance Tax process 1 process 2 process 3 process 4 process 5 Physical Virtual
62. thread local storage
63. goroutines
64. testing
65. Go is a Great Fit
66. Dynamic Libraries
67. Single Statically Compiled Binary
68. Small Size
69. no fork
70. sudo apt-get install gorump
72. Dependencies are a WIP
73. future
74. no confidence on merging
75. rumpkernel.org github.com/deferpanic/gorump github.com/deferpanic/packages https://github.com/deferpanic/dpcli https://github.com/deferpanic/gorumpdeb https://deferpanic.net