– What is a Unikernel? How is it different than a traditional VM or container?

– There’s a free and open source tool and an optional SAAS offering

– How it’s possible to build a new deployable golden image in 2 minutes

– Motivation to use Go for building the surrounding sites and services

– Certain organizations are pushing decent traffic through their Unikernel driven apps

– How you can run a multi-service app with Nanos (web + worker + db + cache, etc.)

– ops.city and nanos.org are a single Go binary / 1 Unikernel driven app

– The nanovms.com site is a bit more involved and has Stripe integration

– I never heard of the term Unikernel until today

– nginx isn’t sitting in front of the Go app and how Unikernels can be so fast

– With a Unikernel approach you can easily move between hosting providers

– SSL certs are handled directly by the Go app for their sites

– nanos.org and ops.city use GCP and nanovms.com is on their own hardware

– Why they went with their own data center for hosting and their server specs / costs

– Terraform, Ansible and similar tools aren’t being used to set up anything

– What the deployment process looks like for their services

– You can run all of this on a Raspberry Pi 4

– What does the development process look like with a Unikernel driven app?

– Dealing with secrets in production

– Databases are backed up regularly and how logs are handled

– Getting notified of errors and up-time reports from updown.io

– Mailgun is used for sending out transactional emails

– Best tips? Keep it simple (seriously)

– Thoughts on the Plan9 operating system

– You don’t need to change how you write your apps to run them in a Unikernel

– The code for Nanos is open source on GitHub