unikraft/kraft repository overview

⁠kraft

To begin using Unikraft⁠ you can use the command-line utility kraft, which is a companion tool used for defining, configuring, building, and running Unikraft applications. With kraft you can seamlessly create a build environment for your unikernel and painlessly manage dependencies for its build.

⁠Installing kraft

The kraft tool and Unikraft build system have a number of package requirements; please run the following command (on apt-get-based systems) to install the requirements:

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential libncurses-dev libyaml-dev flex git wget socat bison unzip uuid-runtime;

To install kraft simply run:

pip3 install git+https://github.com/unikraft/kraft.git

You can then type kraft to see its help menu

⁠Building an Application

The simplest way to get the sources for, build and run an application is by running the following commands:

kraft list
kraft up -p PLATFORM -m ARCHITECTURE APP

At present, Unikraft and kraft support the following applications:

• C "hello world"⁠ (helloworld);
• C "http reply"⁠ (httpreply);
• C++ "hello world"⁠ (helloworld-cpp);
• Golang⁠ (helloworld-go);
• Python 3⁠ (python3);
• Micropython⁠ (micropython);
• Ruby⁠ (ruby);
• Lua⁠ (lua);
• Click Modular Router⁠ (click);
• JavaScript (Duktape)⁠ (duktape);
• Web Assembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)⁠ (wamr);
• Redis⁠ (redis);
• Nginx⁠ (nginx);
• SQLite⁠ (sqlite);

For more information about that command type kraft up -h. For more information about kraft type kraft -h or read the documentation at Unikraft's website⁠. If you find any problems please fill out an issue⁠. Thank you!

⁠Contributing

Please refer to the README.md⁠ as well as the documentation in the doc/⁠ subdirectory of the main Unikraft repository.