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"Backed by containerd" confused me until I found this snippet in the documentation (spoilers: it is used for pulling images amongst other things, but not as a container runtime): https://flintlock.liquidmetal.dev/docs/getting-started/conta...

ofrzeta · 1d ago

First time I hear about the "Cloud Hypervisor" https://www.cloudhypervisor.org/. It's really hard to keep up with all new stuff in the field.

tptacek · 1d ago

Cloud Hypervisor has been around for years. It's a very similar Rust codebase to Firecracker (and shares libraries). People use it because it supports PCI passthrough.

dboreham · 1d ago

These things are a great idea but it turns out they're always a massive pain to actually use. Until container-as-VM is as easy to get as installing docker, not really viable for mainstream use imho.

Imustaskforhelp · 1d ago

Someone else mentioned about kata and it seems to be pretty interesting imo.

What are your thoughts on it?

stevefan1999 · 1d ago

Compare this with Kata Container?

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Flintlock – Create and manage the lifecycle of MicroVMs, backed by containerd

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