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“Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based servi
by spdustin 5y ago
“Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.”
- denysvitali 5y agoMaybe it's also worth mentioning where it's used in AWS: Lambda Functions Use case: starting a VM as fast as possible while maintaining the isolation that a VM (compared to a container) provides