By tailoring the operating system, libraries and configuration to the particular needs of your application, it vastly reduces virtual machine and container image sizes to a few KBs, provides blazing performance, and drastically cuts down your software stack’s attack surface.
Unikraft is faster than Linux
On Unikraft, NGINX is 166% faster than on Linux and 182% faster than on Docker
Unikraft outperforms well-configured custom Linux kernel images, even those with security mitigations turned off! Compared to other Unikernel Development Kits, library OSes and containers, Unikraft still comes out on top.
We benchmarked NGINX throughput in terms of requests per second compared to other unikernels, Linux and Docker; Unikraft achieves 182% performance improvement with respect to Docker.
Build Unikernels Quickly and Easily
With the Unikraft companion command-line client kraft, you can quickly and easily define, configure, build, and run unikernel applications. Get everything from OS library dependencies to pre-built binaries and more.
Saturate servers and squeeze maximum utility. 1K+ VM guests on a single server.
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Optimize images with built-in Dead-Code Elimination, Link-Time Optizations and more.
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With the more than 160+ syscalls and multiple lib-C's and standard libraries.
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Built and used by leading academic institutes and companies
Unikraft's design, performance and security have been extensively developed, evaluated and put into production at leading companies and academic institutes.
Build highly customized, performant and secure VM images for your use case
Unikraft is fully modular, with a constantly growing ecosystem with many popular open-source operating system and application libraries like musl and openssl available for use, allowing you to pick and choose exactly what you need for your target application.
100+ Libraries to choose from.
25K+ Options to configure your application with.
160+ Syscalls are available, covering more than 90% of use cases.
Runs on Major Cloud Platforms
Along with major CPU architectures, Unikraft can be deployed on leading cloud providers.
Unikraft is green & efficient
From cloud to embedded devices, running an application on Unikraft both increases efficiency and reduces power consumption as less resources are necessary.
Unikraft supports ARM and ARM64 architectures and popular platforms including Raspberry Pi B+.
Learn more about embedded devices →The cloud is essential to your business but you know you are overpaying. Automatically deploy your app as an extremely efficient, green, and highly secure image with the click of a button on the Unikraft Cloud Platform.
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