39 lines
2.5 KiB
Markdown
39 lines
2.5 KiB
Markdown
|
Unikraft Tools
|
||
|
|
==============================
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Unikraft is an automated system for building specialized OSes and
|
||
|
|
unikernels tailored to the needs of specific applications. It is based
|
||
|
|
around the concept of small, modular libraries, each providing a part
|
||
|
|
of the functionality commonly found in an operating system (e.g.,
|
||
|
|
memory allocation, scheduling, filesystem support, network stack,
|
||
|
|
etc.).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
This repo contains all tools related to Unikraft, and in particular
|
||
|
|
the main.go which acts as a single point of entry for all Unikraft
|
||
|
|
operations, including the downloading, building and running
|
||
|
|
of Unikraft applications.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Note that this repo in general, is currently under heavy development
|
||
|
|
and should not yet be used unless you know what you are doing. As things
|
||
|
|
stabilize, we will update this file to reflect this.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
# Toolchain
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Welcome to the Unikraft tools wiki!
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
The Unikraft tools are a set of tools to automatically build images of operating systems targeting applications. The toolchain will include the following tools:
|
||
|
|
1. **Decomposition tool** to assist developers in breaking existing monolithic software into smaller components.
|
||
|
|
2. **Dependency analysis tool** to analyse existing, unmodified applications to determine which set of libraries and OS primitives are absolutely necessary for correct execution.
|
||
|
|
3. **Automatic build tool** to match the requirements derived by the dependency analysis tools to the available libraries constructed by the OS decomposition tools. This one is composed of two components: a static analysis and a dynamic analysis.
|
||
|
|
4. **Verification tool** to ensure that the functionality of the resulting, specialized OS+application matches that of the application running on a standard OS. The tool will also take care of ensuring software quality.
|
||
|
|
5. **Performance optimization tool** to analyse the running specialized OS+application and to use this information as input to the automatic build tools so that they can generate even more optimized images.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
For now only the **Dependency analysis tool** and the **Automatic build tool** are available.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Installation and documentation
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
For installation and documentation, a wiki is available on this [address](https://github.com/gaulthiergain/tools/wiki).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## Contribute
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Unikraft tools is an open source project (under MIT license) and is currently hosted at https://github.com/gaulthiergain/tools. You are encouraged to download the code, examine it, modify it, and submit bug reports, bug fixes, feature requests, new features and other issues and pull requests.
|