StardustOS: Library operating system for building light-weight Unikernels

109 points by transpute 2 days ago|8 comments

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mrbluecoat 16 hours ago

Looks promising but the last update appears to be a few years ago. OPS is a modern alternative: https://docs.ops.city/ops/

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N_Lens 24 hours ago

The main value seems to be as a research vehicle and teaching tool rather than production-ready infrastructure. The Rust version being archived suggests this might not be under active development currently.

Good for simple stateless services (web servers, API endpoints, microservices) applications that fit the unikernel model - single-purpose, statically linked Running on one's own Xen hypervisor infrastructure.

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mprovost 20 hours ago

It reminds me of the old OSKit project from the Univ of Utah, which was also developed for research and teaching.

https://www-old.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/

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dist1ll 22 hours ago

I would argue that stateful services (databases, message queues, CDNs) all perfectly fit the unikernel model. The question is whether the additional engineering effort and system design is worth the performance gain.

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miohtama 13 hours ago

Interesting. Are there any research and papers on potential performance gains?

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synalx 23 hours ago

> Stardust-oxide is a re-implementation of the unikernel in Rust.

Not "Starrust"? What a missed opportunity...

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rl3 6 hours ago

Galen Erso disagrees.

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koolala 2 days ago

Could this be good for compiling as a small Wasm OS for the Browser? Instead of Alpine Linux or things like that?