BareMetal-Cloud: Minimal Exokernel for Cloud Environments
By
ianseyler
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
BareMetal-Cloud is a minimal version of the BareMetal exokernel designed specifically for running in public and private cloud environments. The software is extremely lightweight at only 10,240 bytes in size and uses just 4 MiB of memory, with all remaining memory allocated to the payload. Currently tested with Digital Ocean and Proxmox, with plans to expand support to major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. A live instance is running on Digital Ocean and responds to HTTP requests.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledBareMetal Cloud is a minimal version of the BareMetal exokernel specifically geared for running in public/private cloud instances.
This minimal version of BareMetal contains only the relevant drivers, is 10,240 bytes in size, and only uses 4 MiB of memory.
All other memory is allocated to the payload.
This has only been tested with Digital Ocean and Proxmox. Support for other hypervisor/cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud) is coming soon.
An instance of BareMetal is running in Digital Ocean at http://baremetal.returninfinity.com and will respond to HTTP.
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