Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology powering AWS Lambda(2021)

Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by throwawayacc5 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:54AM (#34966449)

Any tooling like Docker/Podman to make it as easy to kick off Firecracker VMs as it is to kick off containers?

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by kohlerm on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:05AM (#34966498)

https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite ?

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by wanderingmind on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:07AM (#34966861)

Doesn't seem to be actively developed. Last commit is over 4 months

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by Strum355 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:54AM (#34967154)

It's pretty much unmaintained, but it does still work!

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by kohlerm on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:09AM (#34968411)

Yeah, I think it's strange that no one wants to improve on something like this. I can see a lot of use cases where you would want to just use one kubernetes cluster but have support for multi-tenancy with pods being isolated.

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by klavinski on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:29AM (#34968175)

Not a drop-in replacement: the OCI image entry point is not automatically executed.

Issue opened in 2021: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite/issues/874

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by zokier on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:24AM (#34967751)

Kata containers https://katacontainers.io/

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by simplotek on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @06:23AM (#34968126)

Kata containers sound interesting, but the first thing that hits you when checking the "learn more" section is the fact that the latest entry in their "news" section dates back to January 2019. Is the project still maintained?

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by moondev on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:45AM (#34968656)

https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/releases

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by moondev on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:41AM (#34968621)

https://github.com/weaveworks-liquidmetal/flintlock

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Re:Firecracker internals: deep dive inside the technology po... by gorbypark on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:09AM (#34970105)

There is this project, which I have never used, but seems promising. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...

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