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ops - build and run nanos unikernels

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Observed mentions: 2020-08-03 16:17:47 UTC to 2024-03-15 09:19:00 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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I did it!! https://repo.ops.city/v2/packages/radiosilence/nano-web/show Well chuffed. I couldn't get ops pkg push to work at all, and instead had to manually upload a tar.gz as no matter what I did, it wouldn't find my local image (though it would find it if I did ops pkg load -l nano-web_0.0.1). Is there some sort of Discord or IRC to ask dumb questions instead of spamming up HN? Either way I've made an issue: https://github.com/nanovms/ops/issues/1594
In Nanos – A Unikernel
It seems you are right. The OPS documentation mentions that you can deploy it on bare metal, but this is a recent comment [0] that contradicts that . right now we don't have any plans to support bare metal installs like this as that would imply a bunch of other mgmt related tooling that would not be present (eg: start/stop the server, configure networking, deploy a new one, access rights, etc.) it also breaks the assumptions we have that it is only being deployed as a vm which means having to support a ton of random hardware drivers, nanos is intended to always be ran on top of a hypervisor of some kind - whether it's public cloud or something under your own control (eg: proxmox/vsphere/etc.) It seems like they make some distinction between true bare metal and somewhat bare metal, which
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is highly confusing. ___ [0]: https://github.com/nanovms/ops/issues/1522
In Nanos – A Unikernel
You can also build from source here: https://github.com/nanovms/nanos && https://github.com/nanovms/ops . There are also packages available through AUR/homebrew and the like: https://ops.city/downloads . The script is only there facilitate the 'install' such as ensuring you have qemu installed locally or assessing whether you have kvm/hvf rights/etc. Also, I don't think this is documented yet but you can target various PRs/builds with ops via this way: ops run /bin/ls --nanos-version d632de2
In Nanos: A kernel designed to run only one application in virtualized environment
NanoVMs | SF, NY, Remote (US) | Kernel Eng | Full Time NanoVMs is building out unikernel tooling and infrastructure. We have open source at https://github.com/nanovms/nanos && https://github.com/nanovms/ops. We can run things like go and rust webservers up to 2x as fast on platforms like google cloud today. We are specifically looking for more full-time kernel engineers so we can increase our velocity. We are well-funded by great investors and have revenue from extremely large customers. You can submit here: https://nanovms.breezy.hr/ or just email me. This is listed as remote but it's really just corona remote. We have a very strong preference for those who are either in the Bay Area or willing to relocate. We do have an office that we intend to fill up. Second choice would be New York as we have engineers based there as well. We are ope
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n for remote anywhere else in the US for now so don't be shy if you're 50 miles from nowhere in WY as long as you have a great internet connection and the mad skills. We've found some of our great engineers have backgrounds coming from {networking, storage} companies and traditional embedded backgrounds. For the right candidate we can move extremely fast.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)

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