Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd

"Backed by containerd" confused me until I found this snippet in the documentation (spoilers: it is used for pulling images amongst other things, but not as a container runtime): https://flintlock.liquidmetal.dev/docs/getting-started/conta...

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dboreham 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

These things are a great idea but it turns out they're always a massive pain to actually use. Until container-as-VM is as easy to get as installing docker, not really viable for mainstream use imho.

	▲	Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Someone else mentioned about kata and it seems to be pretty interesting imo. What are your thoughts on it?

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ofrzeta 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

First time I hear about the "Cloud Hypervisor" https://www.cloudhypervisor.org/. It's really hard to keep up with all new stuff in the field.

	▲	tptacek 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Cloud Hypervisor has been around for years. It's a very similar Rust codebase to Firecracker (and shares libraries). People use it because it supports PCI passthrough.

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stevefan1999 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Compare this with Kata Container?