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krakensden on April 27, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Deploy a Dropwizard Unikernel to AWS

If you have a separate runtime & kernel, is it still a unikernel?

josephmoniz on April 27, 2015 [–]

Yeah, this appears to be a bit misleading. It sounds as if they're just running the compiled jar as the /sbin/init process. IMO, thats a very lightweight distro but not a unikernel. #NotAnExpert.

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