Hacker News<p>Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes</p><p><a href="https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/iximiuz-labs-story/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iximiuz.com/en/posts/iximiuz-l</span><span class="invisible">abs-story/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Building" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Building</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a>-Powered <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Course" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Course</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Platform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Platform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/to" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>to</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Learn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Learn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/and" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>and</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kubernetes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iximiuz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iximiuz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kubernetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kubernetes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CoursePlatform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoursePlatform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechEducation</span></a></p>
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Yes, But ⁉️<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Firework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firework</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fireworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fireworks</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Firecrackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecrackers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewYear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYear</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewYears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYears</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewYearEve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYearEve</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NewYearsEve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYearsEve</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/YesBut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YesBut</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Comics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meme</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a></p>
fredix 🐧<p>mais c'est énorme : <a href="https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/plugins/drivers/community/firecracker-task-driver" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.hashicorp.com/nomad/</span><span class="invisible">plugins/drivers/community/firecracker-task-driver</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/nomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nomad</span></a><br><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firecracker</span></a></p>
Ryan Hamel<p><span>To those who believe </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/Firecracker" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Firecracker</a><span> is a good idea for running </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/containers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#containers</a><span> in another protective layer, should just migrate to </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/QEMU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QEMU</a><span> </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/microvms" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#microvms</a><span> on </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/SmartOS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmartOS</a><span>, which will protect the </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/VM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VM</a><span> within a container.<br><br>Hey </span><a href="https://bsd.network/@dexter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dexter@bsd.network</a><span>, when will </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/bhyve" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bhyve</a><span> support microvms (</span><a href="https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/microvm.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/microvm.html</a><span>) ? I am curious to see if </span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cperciva" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cperciva@mastodon.social</a><span> 's </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/FreeBSD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a><span> kernel work allowing it to boot in ~20ms, works over there, and gets carried over into </span><a href="https://calckey.club/tags/OmniOS" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OmniOS</a><span>.</span></p>
LeRoy Miller<p>I could listen to this all day long....</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1JFzOYJPNQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=W1JFzOYJPN</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> introduced me to this group years ago, and just started to recommend them again to me. <br>I had almost how good they really are. And a live show even better.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/YMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YMO</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/YellowMagicOrchestra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YellowMagicOrchestra</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/2012Live" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2012Live</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.radio/tags/Live" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Live</span></a></p>
ItzTrain<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> I hear a lot of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proxmox</span></a> and xpng or whatever as the thing you run your stuff on if it isn't k8 bare metal. Is anyone running services on <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> cause that would be.. well... 🔥!!</p>
Marco<p>Follow along with me on an adventure while I attempt to get <a href="https://linuxlab.sh/tags/firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firecracker</span></a> VMs to boot and run on an <a href="https://linuxlab.sh/tags/ampere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ampere</span></a> <a href="https://linuxlab.sh/tags/arm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arm</span></a> <a href="https://linuxlab.sh/tags/server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>server</span></a>.</p>
Olivier Forget<p>I spent a bit of time looking over the docs of Fly.io.</p><p>It caught my attention a few days ago due to a blog post that mentioned their very fast VM start times:</p><p><a href="https://fly.io/blog/fly-machines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fly.io/blog/fly-machines/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Having fast-starting <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VM</span></a> managed by somebody else is catnip for me: it's perfect for safely running <a href="https://dropserver.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dropserver.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> appspaces.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>b0rk</span></a></span> tried to DIY a setup but it's hard to do well: <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-less-than-a-second/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecr</span><span class="invisible">acker--start-a-vm-in-less-than-a-second/</span></a></p><p>Unfortunately, taken as a whole, I found some issues with the Fly.io offering:</p><p>1/</p>
Fabio Valentini<p>- updated comrak (a CommonMark parser) to the latest version (which also fixes two medium severity security issues)</p><p>- started submitting a few Rust packages that I only had on my local system for review (mostly crates like tracing-subscriber, which will make it possible for us to enable test suites in more Rust packages where these dependencies are currently missing)</p><p>- finished up the package review for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> (a tool for managing MicroVMs)</p>
Jan :rust: :ferris:<p>Very interesting read from the <a href="https://floss.social/tags/CodeSandbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CodeSandbox</span></a> blog</p><p>How we clone a running <a href="https://floss.social/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VM</span></a> in 2 seconds (September 2022)</p><p><a href="https://codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clone-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codesandbox.io/blog/how-we-clo</span><span class="invisible">ne-a-running-vm-in-2-seconds</span></a></p><p>Amongst others, they are using <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> and memory snapshots with Copy-On-Write to achieve this level of <a href="https://floss.social/tags/performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a></p><p>Very interesting and it clearly shows that even very complicated things that require a lot of heavy lifting can be made _blazingly fast_!</p><p>There is no excuse for software being slow! Make it <a href="https://floss.social/tags/fast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fast</span></a>!</p><p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VM</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/SoftwareQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareQuality</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memory</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RAM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAM</span></a></p>
Matt "msw" Wilson<p>The core technology behind <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lambda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lambda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SnapStart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SnapStart</span></a> is in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> virtual machine monitor.<br><a href="https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main/docs/snapshotting/snapshot-support.md" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/firecracker-microvm</span><span class="invisible">/firecracker/blob/main/docs/snapshotting/snapshot-support.md</span></a></p>
Boiling Steam<p>Ignite – Use Firecracker VMs with Docker images: <a href="https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/weaveworks/ignite</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>update</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/release" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>release</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ignite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firecracker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/microvm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microvm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/lambda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lambda</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a></p>
Lup Yuen Lee 李立源<p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Firecracker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Firecracker</span></a> Micro VM on <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/11/22/getting-started-with-firecracker-on-raspberry-pi/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dev.l1x.be/posts/2020/11/22/ge</span><span class="invisible">tting-started-with-firecracker-on-raspberry-pi/</span></a></p>
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