13:54 <superherointj> How do you deploy MirageOS to production? Which cloud companies/service is used for hosting?

13:56 <superherointj> Would it make sense to make a docker image and deploy using docker instead of Xen/Kvm?

14:16 <h01ger> superherointj: depending on your use case, yes

15:19 <superherointj> h01ger, for production, is it good idea? Xen/Kvm would cause a situation of "nested virtualization" and I'm not sure how it plays out. But docker could be nested VT as well. Humm...

15:20 <h01ger> 'for production' can mean a zillion things, and there are cases where i would not touch docker with a 10m stick, and there are some, where i might even consider docker. sometimes...

15:24 <superherointj> I see docker isnt needed if I had direct access to Xen/KVM hosts. My question is, how people using MirageOS usually approach this situation of having to host on cloud?

17:49 <hannes> hmm, superherojointj left now... but to add to his question -- solo5 just got a new backend using seccomp, so it is now easily possible to deploy MirageOS unikernels as processes (see nabla-containers for some description thereof, although the seccomp-solo5 patch was a major rework of nabla-containers).

17:50 <h01ger> nice

17:52 <hannes> and FWIW, the current solo5-hvt deployment story is being worked on actively... :)

17:53 <hannes> it is a bit tricky since the tender (host system process) is tailored for each unikernel (depending on which modules are required there) -- but this is going to be revised in the near future

17:57 <hannes> superherointj: pls see above (or http://irclog.whitequark.org/mirage/)

17:58 <hannes> I personally deploy atm MirageOS solo5 hvt virtual machines on my own hardware which I have in some data center (yes, I know this is not too common anymore)

18:03 <apache2> you can just compile for the unix target and run them inside linux

18:22 <superherointj> hannes, thanks for answering. I'll have a look.

18:26 <hannes> superherointj: I think for Xen servers, there is somewhere a shell script, and there is also somewhere a script to deploy to GCE using the virtio target of mirageos (which btw also emits a libvirt xml deployment file) -- so it really depends on your scenario / hosting provider -- and as remarked above there's quite some work in progress to streamline the deployment step