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Revisiting Unikernels

Oxide and Friends

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Is Hubris a Unit Kernel?

When we talk about hubris, it's not a unit, like you're not running a general purpose workload on that system. Like every bit of code that's going to run under hubris is compiled into the kernel image itself. And when everything can kind of grow into everything else, it makes it really, really, really hard to reason about the ultimate system.

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