WASM meets unikernels: Secure and Efficient Cloud-Native Deployments
- Track: WebAssembly
- Room: K.4.601
- Day: Sunday
- Start: 10:00
- End: 10:25
- Video only: k4601
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This talk explores the intersection of WebAssembly and unikernels to create a flexible, powerful and secure deployment. On one hand, WASM offers unprecedented portability across platforms with almost near-native execution. On the other hand, unikernels can achieve extremely fast boot times, truely strong isolation with low CPU overhead and memory footprint. The presentation covers the development of a tool that builds and packages WASM unikernels as OCI-compliant images. Additionally, the talk demonstrates the seamless integration of WASM unikernels with Kubernetes through urunc
, a unikernel container runtime, which treats them as standard containers. This end-to-end solution facilitates the building, deployment, and execution of WASM applications in a purely cloud-native manner, achieving a level of security and efficiency that surpasses the traditional container model.
Speakers
Charalampos Mainas | |
Anastassios Nanos |