Solo5 is a microkernel friendly, sandboxed, re-targetable execution
environment for unikernels, with a taste for minimalism. We will start with
an overview of core Solo5 concepts and present the interfaces it offers to
the unikernel/library operating system/application developer. Using
existing library operating systems, such as MirageOS, we will demonstrate
the developer experience for various Solo5 targets, going on to show how
rigorously applying minimalist principles to interface design is used to
our advantage, blurring traditional lines between unikernels, processes,
kernels and hypervisors. We will conclude with some lessons learned during
development of Solo5 thus far, and present ideas and challenges for future
development.
The target audiences for this talk are application developers with an
interest in operating systems and unikernels, language runtime and
toolchain developers interested in porting their language to a unikernel
environment such as Solo5, and operating systems developers in general. No
{uni,micro,separation,monolithic,}kernels or hypervisors will be harmed
during this talk.
