Unikernel and Advanced Container Support in the Socker Tool

Unikernel and Advanced Container Support in the Socker Tool

연구 분야: Software Development

학회: International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication

Linux containers, with the build-once-run-anywhere approach, are becoming popular among scientific communities for software packaging and sharing. Docker is the most popular and user friendly platform for running and managing Linux containers. Unikernels are single-application fully virtualised lightweight packages designed to run as virtual machines. For some applications, unikernels can be alternative to containers due to the benefits they provide in terms of performance and security. presents an update for SOCKER, a wrapper for running Docker containers on Slurm that enforces running unpriviliges containers within Slurm jobs. The update to SOCKER includes: Improved security, MPI support, and support for OSv unikernels.