Unikernel Systems is now part of Docker

Unikernel Systems is joining Docker. Unikernels compile your source code into a custom operating system that includes only the functionality required by the application logic. Anil Madhavapeddy explains what this means for Unikernel Systems and for Docker.

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Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world’s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker’s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 “Dockerized” applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.

[thani-sh]

It's really great to see docker working on unikernel tools. I should say that I'm not at all surprised to hear this news.
I was kinda expecting docker to bring unikernels to us "normal people" one of these days :)

[karigucio]

very bad presentation, still don't know how are the two technologies supposed to fit together. I see this only as an advert.