| ▲ | Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing(github.com) |
| 45 points by pykello 4 days ago | 5 comments |
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| ▲ | bradhe 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| We’re experimenting with this stuff. So far great. Way better isolation (obviously) than containers. Pretty easy to use so far. Any gotchas? |
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| ▲ | scoodah 2 days ago | parent [-] | | The virtual devices it implements are fairly limited in number, and you may find bottlenecks with high IO throughput applications. It uses memory ballooning as its dynamic memory management. Managing this balloon requires some custom implementations if you want to do things like reclaim memory from the guest. If a large file is created and deleted within the host that disk space stays claimed until the VMs disk is deleted. No GPU support. |
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| ▲ | jiggawatts 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Now that this is open source, I wonder if it could be integrated into Kubernetes (or the like) for everyone to use instead of just AWS. |
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