There are benefits to this if you are deploying something like a 5G microservice or some other single-purpose, small binary that takes few resources but at the end of the day if you are deploying a JVM application that is gigabytes in size it doesn't really matter how small the base image is. Same thing applies in unikernel-land.
The 1 gig limitation on clouds is not such a huge deal though as we can upload your image, however small it is as that size and then tell the cloud to provision the disk the size you need which acts kind of like a sparse file (but technically not one).
The 1 gig limitation on clouds is not such a huge deal though as we can upload your image, however small it is as that size and then tell the cloud to provision the disk the size you need which acts kind of like a sparse file (but technically not one).