AWS Firecracker

Kata Containers: Build and configure Firecracker

Picking up from where we left in our previous post, we will now install AWS Firecracker and configure Kata Containers to use it as their hypervisor.

Mar 28, 2022
Build Kata Containers from source on x86 and arm64

Kata Containers enable containers to be seamlessly executed in Virtual Machines. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers, while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers is the result of merging two existing open source projects: Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV.

Mar 24, 2022
Running containers on Firecracker microVMs using kata on kubernetes

This is the first of a number of posts regarding the orchestration, deployment and scaling of containerized applications in VM sandboxes using kubernetes, kata-containers and AWS Firecracker microVMs. We have gathered some notes during the installation and configuration of the necessary components and we thought they might be useful to the community, especially with regards to the major pain points in trying out recent open-source projects and technologies.
Jul 9, 2021
Hardware acceleration in the Age of Functions (vol II)

In our previous post we spoke about the potential solutions for deploying serverless offerings with hardware acceleration support. With the increasing adoption of the serverless and FaaS paradigms, providers will need to offer some form of hardware acceleration semantics.

Dec 4, 2020