January 23, 2019 | Last update: Feb 18, 2019

Experiences from porting nabla containers to an ARMv8 board

[UPDATE: Rumprun aarch64 support has now been merged in upstream nabla.] Nabla containers provide a new type of container designed for strong isolation on a host system. The foundation of nabla containers lies in three main components: rumpkernel, solo5, and runnc. The team that built nabla containers extended the rumprun unikernel framework to support solo5 (instead of hardware/baremetal or xen), so that a rumprun-baked unikernel application can be executed on top of a lightweight monitor such as solo5.
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