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Unikernels

First-wave: lightweight kernels (microkernels)

• HYDRA: the kernel of a multiprocessor operating system
• Two years of experience with a μ-Kernel based OS
• A persistent system in real use-experiences of the first 13 years
• SPIN: An extensible microkernel for application-specific operating system services
• Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
• Policy/mechanism separation in Hydra
• Improving IPC by kernel design

Second-wave: cloud optimization (exokernels, multikernels)

• Exokernel: An operating system architecture for application-level resource management
• Exterminate all operating system abstractions
• The Clive Operating System
• The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems
• IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency
• The IX Operating System: Combining Low Latency, High Throughput, and Efficiency in a Protected Dataplane
• Contiki - a lightweight and flexible operating system for tiny networked sensors
• Arrakis: The Operating System Is the Control Plane
• Embracing diversity in the Barrelfish manycore operating system
• Decoupling Cores, Kernels, and Operating Systems

Unikernels: bespoke, compile-time specialization based on a libOS

Introduction

• Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud
• Unikernels: the rise of the virtual library operating system
• Maximizing hypervisor scalability using minimal virtual machines
• Breaking up is hard to do: security and functionality in a commodity hypervisor
• A case for high performance computing with virtual machines
• Comparing the robustness of POSIX operating systems
• Exploring the Design Space of Combining Linux with Lightweight Kernels for Extreme Scale Computing
• Using kernel hypervisors to secure applications

Specific libOS implementations

• IncludeOS: A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services
• OSv—optimizing the operating system for virtual machines
• ClickOS and the art of network function virtualization
• Enabling fast, dynamic network processing with clickos
• The rump kernel: A tool for driver development and a toolkit for applications
• Flexible operating system internals: the design and implementation of the anykernel and rump kernels
• Rump Kernels: No OS? No Problem!
• HermitCore: A Unikernel for Extreme Scale Computing
• llamaOS: A Solution for Virtualized High-Performance Computing Clusters
• KylinX: A Dynamic Library Operating System for Simplified and Efficient Cloud Virtualization

Performance, comparisons and analysis

• The impact of operating system structure on memory system performance
• Hypervisors vs. Lightweight Virtualization: A Performance Comparison
• A performance evaluation of rump kernels as a multi-server os building block on sel4
• An updated performance comparison of virtual machines and linux containers
• My VM is Lighter (and Safer) than your Container
• Security of OS-level virtualization technologies: Technical report
• Time Provisioning Evaluation of KVM, Docker and Unikernels in a Cloud Platform

Applications of Unikernels

• Tardigrade: Leveraging Lightweight Virtual Machines to Easily and Efficiently Construct Fault-Tolerant Services
• Unikernel-based approach for software-defined security in cloud infrastructures
• FADES: Fine-Grained Edge Offloading with Unikernels
• Enterprise IoT security and scalability: how unikernels can improve the status Quo
• Unikernels Everywhere: The Case for Elastic CDNs
• Towards minimalistic, virtualized content caches with minicache
• Jitsu: Just-in-time summoning of unikernels
• Enabling fast, dynamic network processing with clickOS
• uniprof: A Unikernel Stack Profiler
• On the Fly TCP Acceleration with Miniproxy
• Unikernel monitors: extending minimalism outside of the box
• Unikernels As Processes
• On the Fly Orchestration of Unikernels: Tuning and Performance Evaluation of Virtual Infrastructure Managers
• Live updating in Unikernels