SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
May 24, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Cloud Foundry Summit 2016
News Highlights:
- EMC announces release of UniK (pronounced you-neek), an
open source orchestration tool designed to bring unikernel
functionality to application platforms
- Allows applications to be deployed securely and with minimal
footprint across a variety of cloud providers, embedded devices
(IoT), as well as a developer laptop or workstation
- Leverages Virtustream μ VM®
architecture to support lightweight unikernel instances
- Supports multiple unikernel types, processor architectures,
hypervisors and orchestration tools including Cloud Foundry, Docker
and Kubernetes
- Released through the EMC {code} DevHigh5 program, which
recognizes developers solving problems and creating thought-leading
applications for the community
- EMC is open sourcing UniK to enable accelerated collaboration
and adoption
Interact with EMC Online:
- Follow @ProjectUniK, @EMCcode, @EMCDojo, @EMC_News and @EMCCorp
on Twitter
- Read EMC perspective on UniK:
- Chad Sakac, Virtual Geek Blog:
"Something UniK, and Really Cool!"
- Idit Levine, EMC Dojo Blog:
"UniK: Build and Run Unikernels with Ease"
- Join the EMC {code} Community or find us on GitHub
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced UniK, a significant open source contribution that enables
developers to deploy applications to the cloud and IoT devices more
securely and efficiently, by compiling application sources into
unikernels. UniK as an open source project is recognized under the
DevHigh5 program through EMC® {code}, a program that
supports and provides recognition to developers and partners for
their open source contributions. By releasing UniK as a
collaborative open source project, EMC expects the tool to help
bring customers closer to cloud native application platforms
through the choice of running applications with containers or
unikernels.
The release of UniK is the latest project in a series of EMC
contributions to the open source community designed to help
accelerate collaboration on and adoption of key infrastructure
technologies for the modern data center. In addition to multiple
projects contributed through EMC {code}, EMC has also dedicated
development resources and leadership to open source communities and
efforts such as Cloud Foundry and OpenStack.
Unikernels are specialized, lightweight kernels and bootable
operating system images that are tuned specifically to running
applications. The unikernel represents the smallest subset of code
required to run the application, enabling application portability
with smaller footprints, less overhead, smaller attack surfaces and
faster boot times than traditional operating systems. These
single-purpose images can be deployed for production on
hypervisors, cloud platforms and embedded devices. Unikernels as
discrete virtual machines embrace innate advantages of reliability,
availability and security that virtualization provides.
Additionally, the efficiencies of unikernels are complimentary to
running applications on IoT devices.
Application and container platforms including Cloud Foundry,
Docker and Kubernetes are enabling organizations to build and
operate applications in new ways. These emerging platforms all
focus on container technology to encapsulate applications.
Unikernels through its efficiencies brings a compelling set of
capabilities for these applications. UniK bridges the gap between
these modern application platforms and unikernels.
UniK can be integrated to application platforms with a
convenient REST API making developing and operating unikernels
seamless. UniK does this through a highly pluggable and scalable
architecture, allowing contributions for new processor
architectures, programming languages, unikernel compilers and cloud
providers.
UniK enables software developers to compile applications into
different unikernels creating extremely lightweight, efficient
application instances. These single-purpose images can then be
deployed on hypervisors such as VMware vSphere or KVM with
application platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Docker and
Kubernetes.
UniK's Key Features:
- Ability to integrate with multiple back-end open source
platforms to compile, package and deploy applications
- Brings efficiency and security to applications on modern
platforms and IoT devices
- Simplification of development and operation of applications
that employ unikernels
- Supports developing and operating applications with hypervisors
running locally and in data centers
- Support for common hypervisor and cloud providers
Availability
UniK is currently available under the
Apache 2.0 license on Github:
https://github.com/emc-advanced-dev/unik
EMC Executive Comment:
John Roese, CTO and Senior Vice President,
EMC Corporation
"Unikernels are completely self-contained, have fewer layers of
code and are much simpler to reason about. With unikernels picking
up steam in the community thanks to attention from Docker and
others, developers are seeking to capture benefits that include
lighter weight code stacks and a reduced surface area for security
intrusions—particularly important for developing apps in the cloud
and for IoT devices. EMC is the first organization to make this
possible by bringing UniK to the open source community, offering
developers the ability to compile an operating system and run it on
virtually any cloud platform. We believe that offering UniK to the
open source community will help accelerate innovation with
unikernels."
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in
enabling businesses and service providers to transform their
operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this
transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products
and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing,
helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their
most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found
at www.EMC.com.
EMC and EMC {code} are trademarks or registered trademarks of
EMC Corporation in the United
States and/or other countries. All other trademarks used are
the property of their respective owners. Virtustream
µVM is a registered trademark and trademark of Virtustream, Inc. in
the United States and other
countries.
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