Writing a Unikernel Microservice with Mirage

Let's get our hands dirty and build a small webservice in a high-level functional language (OCaml), then compile it down to a fully-standalone, specialised Xen image.

Mirage allows us to just just that, and we'll do a complete walkthrough:

• write a small webservice in OCaml

• run it as a regular process on Linux

• compile it to a Xen image using the Mirage toolchain

• run it as a unikernel application on a local Xen host

Finally, we will share some experiences and lessons learned, and take a brief look at future developments.

Agenda

18:00-19:00 Dinner

19:00-21:00 Guided workshop / hands-on

Prerequisites

Laptop with Vagrant and VirtualBox

Getting in

We'll be at the Xebia Training at the 2nd floor of Laapersveld 61. When in doubt call Arnout at 06-22989540.