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Optimizing Performance with Unikernels: Exploring Container Runtimes for Serverless Workloads with Knative Benchmarking

In our previous posts, we walked through the process of configuring various low-level container runtimes in Knative using the RuntimeClass feature of K8s. We detailed the setup for isolation mechanisms like gVisor, with a special focus on Kata and its associated hypervisors, including AWS Firecracker and QEMU. Additionally, we delved into the capabilities of unikernels, showcasing the power of urunc in the serverless realm.

urunc: Introducing a unikernel container runtime

This post is about urunc, a tool that we build to treat unikernels as containers and properly introduce unikernels to the cloud-native world! Essentially, urunc is a container runtime able to spawn unikernels that reside in container images. Before digging into the gory details, let us walk through some required concepts: unikernels, containers, and container runtimes.

Isolated, hardware-accelerated functions on Jetson AGX Orin

Following up on a successful VM boot on a Jetson AGX Orin, we continue exploring the capabilities of this edge device, focusing on the cloud-native aspect of application deployment.