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Tl;dr: We tried to misuse technology and we failed. If Firecracker was developed for a single binary executed fir a short period of time why do you try to use i
by datadeft 3y ago
Tl;dr: We tried to misuse technology and we failed. If Firecracker was developed for a single binary executed fir a short period of time why do you try to use it for multiple executables running for a long time? Does it make any sense to even try?
- mike_hock 3y agoWhere in the "sales" pitch on the fancy-CSS website as well as the README does it say only to use it for single-shot workloads? I think the complaints are perfectly valid.
- datadeft 3y ago"Firecracker is an alternative to QEMU that is purpose-built for running serverless functions and containers safely and efficiently, and nothing more." [1] Interesting. I guess we are reading a different website. 1. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
- zokier 3y agoAWS uses firecracker to execute long-running Fargate tasks; its hardly misuse