This repo contains two parts: the daemon of HyperContainer
hyperdand the CLIhyperctl.
HyperContainer is a hypervisor-agnostic technology that allows you to run Docker images on plain hypervisor.
HyperContainer combines the best from both world: VM and Container.
| - | Container | VM | HyperContainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isolation | Weak, shared kernel | Strong, HW-enforced | Strong, HW-enforced |
| Portable | Yes, but kernel dependent sometimes | 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 |
| Immutable | Yes | No, configuration management required | Yes, only kernel+image |
| Image Size | Small, MBs | Big, GBs | Small, MBs |
| Compatibility | No, need new tools | Great, everything just works | Good, it is still a "Machine", much less changes |
| Mature | Not yet | Production ready, SDN, SDS, LiveMigration, etc. | Yes, just plug-&-play |
| ROI | Rebuild everything with container | - | Reuse your virtual infrastructure |
*BYOK = bring your own kernel
- QEMU 2.0 or later
- Xen 4.5 and VT enabled host (for Xen support)
Ensure you are running Linux (kernel 3.8 or later) and have Docker (version 1.5 or later) and QEMU (version 2.0 or later) installed. Then download the binary tarball and install it directly.
For RHEL/CentOS 7.x, you can use our RPMs
For information on using the command line, just type hyperctl. You may use
hyperctl <command> --help for detailed information on any specific command.
Clone hyperd and runv in GoPath
> mkdir -p ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/hyperhq
> cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/hyperhq
> git clone https://github.com/hyperhq/runv.git runv
> git clone https://github.com/hyperhq/hyperd.git hyperd
And make sure you have go (>= 1.4) , device-mapper-devel, and autotools, go into the hyper dir
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
> make
Then you can get the binaries hyperd daemon and hyperctl cmdline tool.
You may also need the kernel and initrd from HyperStart to run HyperContainer.
Found a bug, want to suggest a feature, or have a question?
File an issue. When reporting a bug, please include which version of hyperd you are running, as shown by hyperctl --version.
- Twitter: @hyper_sh
- Blog: https://hyper.sh/blog.html
- Slack: #hyper (The IRC has been migrated to slack.)