Lightweight VMs and container alternatives¶
#virtualisation #cloud #public
Lighweight VMS¶
Unikernels¶
Posts¶
https://hocus.dev/blog/qemu-vs-firecracker/
Firecracker, the microVM hypervisor, is renowned for being lightweight, fast, and secure. It’s excellent for running short-lived workloads, which is why it’s the backbone of AWS Lambda. After weeks of testing, we decided to entirely replace it with QEMU. A little-known fact about Firecracker is its lack of support for many modern hypervisor features, such as dynamic RAM management, which is vital for long-lived workloads. In this post, I will explain why Firecracker might not be the best hypervisor choice and when you should avoid it.
Jail¶
- https://github.com/fsquillace/junest = The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, upon any Linux distro
Other approaches¶
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