Bootrino.com
Infrastructure
cloud boot and deployment
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Excellent work and a great epiphany
From 1 comment
Dude, excellent work and what a great epiphany. I remember reading the source code to an early X terminal project that turned old SUN workstations (and I'm sure others but that's…
technofiend on HN
Helpful for someone trying to boot Alpine into RAM
From 1 comment
Wow I was just doing research on this exact topic. I’ve been trying to boot Alpine into RAM from the network, and then run my lxd containers off the storage drives. So imagine my…
artellectual on HN
Objections
Run-from-RAM limits use cases, since changes need a reboot to deploy
From 1 comment
So, the issue I see here is that the run-from-ram aspect of this limits the use cases for the product. What happens if you want to make changes to files/apps, or are using it as…
indigodaddy on HN
Run-from-RAM Linux is not similar to rump unikernels
From 2 comments
There are folks who know much more about rump than I. They read HN and I stand to be corrected. But the description of bootrino seems like it is has a misleading definition of…
aplorbust on HNHuge difference. It's not the kernel size, it's the interface (ABI). In a unikernel, the kernel is part of the application (like a library). Instead of a complex/slow transition…
BraveNewCurency on HN
Works only in Chrome, not Safari
From 1 comment
Why Chrome only? Any Safari support planned?
CameronBanga on HN
Requests
Support for other browsers
From 1 comment
Why Chrome only? Any Safari support planned?
CameronBanga on HN
FPGA-based instances for running seL4
From 1 comment
A few days ago I compiled sel4 on riscv without muslc and it was around 700K of quite readable elf code, able to run via spike bbl. I can imagine a service built on rust + rump…
ingenieroariel on HN
Questions
Can deployment work without rebooting the instance?
From 2 comments
So, the issue I see here is that the run-from-ram aspect of this limits the use cases for the product. What happens if you want to make changes to files/apps, or are using it as…
indigodaddy on HNThis is probably based on the philosophy of immutable infrastructure where you never modify a server/VM/container after it has booted; instead you perform a rolling reboot to a…
wmf on HN
Why use cloud hosting at all for small RAM images?
From 1 comment
There are folks who know much more about rump than I. They read HN and I stand to be corrected. But the description of bootrino seems like it is has a misleading definition of…
aplorbust on HN
Alternatives named
Solo5
From 1 comment
Actually I stopped working with the Rump kernel fairly early in the project. The main activity around unikernels now seems to be with Solo5 https://github.com/Solo5/solo5 I don't…
andrewstuart on HN
Linuxkit
From 1 comment
I saw that same HN post and went through a very similar process with it re: unikernels. I’m glad you took the time to get this to work; I also agree that “stripped down Linux”…
chatmasta on HN