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Curious if Firecracker would be better about accessing some of the RPi hardware. I run node-red on RPi via docker and had to do some weird hacks to access cert
by jcims 6y ago
Curious if Firecracker would be better about accessing some of the RPi hardware. I run node-red on RPi via docker and had to do some weird hacks to access certain pins with any reliability (it may have been a permissions issue, it's been a while and whatever i did has been solid since).
One thing I will say about docker is the packaging is very convenient. I have one container for node-red, one for InfluxDb and one for Grafana. I didn't have to deal with anything, just fire them up right out of docker hub and point at each other. Obviously a bit more scrutiny would be recommended for anything important but the overall experience was quite simple.
Another possible use case for Firecracker would be ones where folks are wiring up software-defined radios to RPi. (E.g. ADSB reflectors for FlightRadar24 and the like) Firecracker might be a more robust mechanism to ensure that the stream processing from the radio has sufficient capacity and priority vs whatever other cruft is happening on the box.