ARM and Hyper Team to Bring Secure Container for IoT, Edge and 5G

Working to demonstrate benefits of runV technologies for container applications

New York -- July 03, 2017 - Today, Hyper (HyperHQ Inc.) announced through the runV project plans to bring to bring multi-tenancy to container, for IoT, edge compute, and 5G.

The momentum around containers is gaining traction as to package, distributed, and run applications increases. However, as containers share the host kernel, they are not considered as secure as virtual machines (VM) in a multi-tenant environment. To address this problem, a new open-source project, runV, has been created by Hyper and will feature hypervisor-based runtimes that are equivalent to the already available runC. runV leverages typical hypervisor technology (KVM, Xen, etc.) to launch container images, instead of Linux Container (Cgroup, Namespace).

runV will be able to launch a Docker (or OCI) image into a micro VM in 100ms, and still keeps the hardware-enforced isolation in traditional virtualization. The unique combination of virtualization and containerization allows runV to bring the best of both worlds:

-	Container	VM	Hyper
Isolation	Weak, shared kernel	Strong, HW-enforced	Strong, HW-enforced
Portable	Yes	No, hypervisor dependent	Yes, hypervisor agnostic and portable image
Boot	Fast, sub-second	Slow, tens of seconds	Fast, sub-second
Performance	Great	OK	Good, minimal resource footprint and overhead
Density (instance)	10k+	~500	~5k
Immutable	Yes, cattle	No, pet	Yes, cattle
Image Size	Small, MBs	Big, GBs	Small, MBs
Heterogeneous Workload	No, kernel depency	Yes	Yes, Linux/Windows, BYOK
Device Emulationb	No	Yes	Yes

Currently, runV has preliminary support on ARM servers, however with container multi-tenancy developers can expect to see performance optimizations and density improvements. In working together on the runV project, Hyper and ARM aim to demonstrate the benefits of runV and how well suited it is to ARM-based platforms for the next generation of IoT, 5G, and edge computing.

About Hyper

Hyper (HyperHQ Inc.) builds innovative, open source technology that makes it easy to deploy and manage secure containers in multi-tenant environment. We enable organizations to accelerate all aspects of their software pipeline with container-native public infrastructure.