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Unikraft Guides

Learn how to use Unikraft in new ways with our series of guides which help you get started.

Unikraft Open-Source Community

Unikraft is developed in the spirit of open source: public discussions on Discord, open source licensing model using BSD-3-Clause, public development and management on GitHub.

Binary Compatibility

This guide presents the Unikraft binary compatibility layer. The binary compatibility layer (bincompat) is used to run unmodified Linux binaries (ELFs) on top of Unikraft.

Hackathon Challenges

Listing of hackathon challenges, together with awarded points

Baby Steps - Unikraft Internals

We start presenting the modular architecture of Unikraft and how students can build their unikernels using the manual, `make`-based approach. Expected time: 100 minutes

Introduction to Unikernels and Unikraft

We go over the basics of unikernels, their purpose and the motivation behind building unikernels with the library Operating System model. We present the setup we use for the hackathon and check everything is OK before proceeding to actual work items. Expected time: 15 minutes

Overview

We present the initial steps in setting up the Unikraft development / usage environment. Students will use the basic Unikraft toolchain to set up, configure, build and run Unikraft images. Expected time: 60 minutes

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