Mirage OS is an [[ISC]] licensed library operating system written in [[OCaml]]. - [Website](https://mirage.io/) - [Github](https://github.com/mirage) - [Research Paper](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2557963.2566628) # Notability The modern pioneer of self-contained purpose-built unikernel cloud-deployed applications. # Philosophy > MirageOS represents a new approach where only the necessary components of the OS are included and compiled along with the application into a unikernel. This results in highly efficient and extremely lean appliances, with a much smaller attack surface. These appliances can be deployed directly to the cloud and embedded devices, with the benefits of reduced costs and increased security and scalability. # Hardware Support Mirage is designed primarily to run under a hypervisior (Xen or KVM) and not on bare metal.