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LinuxKit

A toolkit for building secure, portable and lean operating systems for containers

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    2023-09-23

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How LinuxKit Made Tinkerbell More Magical with Justin Cormack and Dan Finneran

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  • Gokrazy – Go Appliances
    Another project that aims to deliver this is Linuxkit (https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit). All the components they ship are written in memory safe languages (usually Go) and run as containers under containerd. You can build a custom image very easily, fully defined as a YAML file. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
    Docker-the-company maintained https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
  • Create a minimalist OS using Docker Containers and Hashicorp Packer
    LF-Edge EVE project leverages Linuxkit to create custom OSs for Edge Devices which in turn leverages Containers as Lego Blocks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
  • Unpopular opinion: I was promised lightweight containers but I got yet another VM
    Behind the scenes Docker Desktop for Mac spawns a linuxkit VM with a bit of extra stuff like NFS to enable mounting Mac paths into containers. In the Docker Desktop settings you'll find the current resource assignment for that VM. That is pretty much reserved for docker so that it does not have to compete with MacOS processes for available resources. Source: over 2 years ago
  • What happened to the nice Ansible cloud (provisioning) listing?
    That said... You might want to check out linuxkit. Source: over 2 years ago
  • What happened to the nice Ansible cloud (provisioning) listing?
    That said... You might want to check out linuxkit -- if you're ever in a place where you need to build VMs out of containers, it is looks next-generation (granted it is less powerful than ansible on a running machine). Source: over 2 years ago
  • Ask HN: How are you using unikernels?
    The definition of what a unikernel is needs to be narrowed down, a lot of these projects in the space (not all the ones listed above) have material differences that are not clear: - some run only one language - some require recompilation - some essentially swap out libraries, others do something closer to dropping your already mostly static binary in a minimal disk image - some build pid1 processes, others VMs... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
  • Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way
    I believe there is growing interest in providing leaner, "trimmed" runtimes for services deployed to the cloud. Today, this is seen largely by specializing the Linux kernel for, for example, container services[0] or in general[1], as much as that is possible (the paper above covers this problem in greater detail). But, Unikernels in themselves are not yet widely adopted. This is the space Unikraft is aiming to... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

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