Wow, just now seeing this topic. I work for a cloud company hosted in AWS. We started out, Netflix/Spotify style microservices. We were all on ec2 images generate by packer (and later with AWS Image Factory). When Docker hit, we kicked the tires but never did anything with it beyond using it for running unit tests, and later, infrastructure tests. 5 years ago, during a hackathon, our little group began... Source: over 1 year ago

> Why not? Most people won't spend the time to learn OS/distro building. I don’t know how good they are and have never used any, but there’s tooling for building the ultimate stripped down kernel, unikernels (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unikernel) A quick Google gives me https://nanovms.com/, https://github.com/solo-io/unik and https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Great entrant in the space that is actually usable: https://www.unikraft.org Promising project that's inactive but was one of the first ones I found with reasonable ergonomics and no lock-in to a specific language that I didn't use: https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun Unfortunately it looks to be unmaintained as of now, but I expect the examples still work etc (https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun/issues/135). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

Then there is the rumprun unikernel (that runs on qemu and baremetal x86), the sources of which you can find here https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun (and some more projects in the github org: https://github.com/rumpkernel). These projects have not been actively maintained for many years. Source: almost 3 years ago

If you want to start with easy mode Gentoo give Redcore a try: https://redcorelinux.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

I was impressed just as I had been by their their website. First this. Source: over 1 year ago