INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Virtualization enabled IT to break down a single server into multiple machines
Containers allowed you take that concept and make it even smaller
DeferPanic wants to take another step with a technology called Unikernels
Today, the company announced its $1.5 million seed round.The round was led by Intialized Captial
Other Investors included Hack.VC, Ron Gula, Ray Rothrock, Justin Label, Liquid2 and BloomBerg Beta
The round was funded on a post valuation of $6 million, founder and CEO Ian Eyberg told TechCrunch.Unikernels are a kind of container, but
Eyberg is careful to distinguish them from the kinds of containers we are talking about when we are looking at Docker and Kubernetes
They are a specialized, very light-weight form of virtualization with some key features that should make them extremely attractive to
companies trying to build at speed while avoiding being hacked (just about everyone).First of all, you can put just about any application in
a unikernal, even your older legacy ones and enjoy some big advantages
The biggest perhaps is a unikernal is by design a single isolated entity
It only runs the application inside it and nothing more
efficient, you can pack 100-200 per host, as opposed to 5-6 VMs
like Ericsson and NEC working on them, up until now, they have been confined to geeks who were willing to put in the sweat to make them work
Just as it took some time for containers to really take hold before the commercialization of Kubernetes as an orchestration layer, Eyberg
The orchestration side is its own ball of craziness
it comes to virtualization, has always been bigger than it has to be.He sees finding a way of eliminating this OS bloat as a key to the
unikernal platform success
Instead of placing the entire OS in the unikernel container, he puts the absolute bare minimum, which usually only includes a network and
That greatly reduces the size and feeds into the other benefits.The company, which is launching out of the Alchemist Accelerator, is
announcing its unikernel orchestration tool and the funding this week at the RSA security conference.
