Container Runtimes

Sandboxing WASM with Unikernels for Secure Cloud-Native Deployments

WebAssembly (WASM) is rapidly emerging as a transformative technology in the cloud-native ecosystem. Its binary instruction format, designed for execution on a stack-based Virtual Machine (VM), enables WASM modules to run seamlessly on any platform, unlocking unprecedented portability. Moreover, WASM promises near-native execution performance and enhanced security due to its “sandboxed” execution model.

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.