No Linux, no Docker, no cloud OS? Think again

April 23, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Serdar Yegulalp.

Operating systems like CoreOS and Joyent’s SmartOS/Triton have worked to redefine, in radically different ways, what an OS needs to be to run applications at scale in the cloud. Now another OS is set to join the ranks of those trying to do the cloud-OS thing in a maverick way: OSv, an open source, hypervisor-optimized OS “designed to run an application stack without getting in the way.”

OSv runs existing Linux applications, but is not itself Linux; it’s an entirely new OS written from the ground up in C/C++. It can run on a slew of hypervisors and virtual-machine systems, or in cloud environments like Amazon EC2 or Google Compute Engine. The company claims significant performance gains for apps running on OSv, saying the boost comes from various design choices that rely on the hypervisor, rather than separate user and kernel address spaces, for keeping things isolated…

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