In recent years unikernels have shown immense performance potential (e.g., throughout in the range of 10-40 Gb/s, boot times of only a few ms, image sizes of only hundreds of KBs).The fundamental drawback of unikernels is that they require that applications be manually ported to the underlying minimalistic OS, needing both expert work and often considerable amount of time. The Unikraft project provides a unikernel code base and build system that significantly simplifies the building of unikernels. In this talk, we will describe our recent port of DPDK to Unikraft, as well as present early performance numbers from running DPDK in a unikernel.
