EMC hopes to make unikernels a bigger part of the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) landscape through its open source UniK orchestration tool, which it unveiled this week.
Unikernels are application images that contain only the bare minimum amount of code necessary to make an application run. They’re similar to containers in that they pack applications into portable, standalone environments, but unikernels take things a step further by cutting out as much overhead as possible. They also generally contain a complete operating system, rather than relying on a host OS, as containers generally do.
EMC is pitching the product as an easy way for developers to leverage microservices in order to package software for the cloud or IoT environments.
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