Nubificus LTD at Open Source Summit Europe 2023

Sep 18th-21st we were in Bilbao, Spain for the Open Source Summit Europe 2023! We had the opportunity to talk about open-source, meet friends, and make new ones!

It was a pleasure for us to present our work on bringing unikernels closer to the cloud-native world! Video Slides

In this session, we went through the options that users have to deploy applications in Cloud & Edge environments. We talked about containers, sandboxed containers, and unikernels, introduced our own container runtime tailored to unikernels, and presented the integration effort we have undertaken to allow unikernels to execute in k8s & Serverless Computing frameworks.

urunc is an open-source, lightweight container runtime that spawns unikernels as generic containers. To facilitate the packaging of unikernels as OCI artifacts, we built bima, a tool that automates the process of injecting unikernel binaries into container image layers and adds metadata that are later used by urunc.

This work is supported by EU H2020 research and innovation programmes, under Grant Agreements 101017168 (SERRANO) and 871900 (5G-COMPLETE).