Comment by shykes
8 days ago
Thank you, I appreciate that!
I actually agonized over whether to include this particular one-liner, because of the risk of perceived self-promotion. In the end I decided to include it, because I actually used it, and I found it actually useful for anyone who wants to try Kernel with a one-liner. I made sure to not include a link to my project, to keep my karma in balance :)
I've been a fan of unikernels for a long time (we acquired the original Unikernel company at Docker), and I have to say applying it to browsers is genius. Now I'm surprised the unikernel community hasn't focused on this application sooner.
As the mentioned acquiree, I agree :-)
> I'm surprised the unikernel community hasn't focused on this application sooner.
There just wasn’t a compelling usecase before agents to need a serverless browser. And Chromium is basically an OS-in-a-box already, and Unikraft has now matured enough to supply the unikernel scaffolding to link it all together (coordinated by Dagger, it seems!)
Except in this case they are just running a linux payload - that which pretty much any firecracker provider could do.
Maybe the author can clarify.