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kuasar
| Quark | kuasar | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 5 | |
| 327 | 1,273 | |
| - | 1.3% | |
| 9.3 | 8.4 | |
| 22 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Quark
kuasar
- My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container
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The advantage of WASM compared with container runtimes
Right now most early examples alas boot a container with a wasm runtime for each wasm instance, which is a sad waste. The whole advantage of wasm should be very lightweight low overhead wasm runtime instances atop a common wasm process. Having a process or container for each instance loses a ton of the benefit, makes it not much better than a regular container.
Thankfully there is work like the Containerd Sandbox API which enables new architectures like this. https://github.com/containerd/containerd/issues/4131
It's still being used to spawn a wasm processes per instance for now, but container runtime project Kuasar is already using the Sandbox API to save significant resources, and has already chimed in in comments on HN to express a desire to have shared-process/multi-wasm-instamxe runtimes, which could indeed allow sub ms spawning that could enable instance per request architectures. https://github.com/kuasar-io/kuasar
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 30 April 2023
- Kuasar - A Container Runtime in Rust
- Kuasar: An efficient multi-sandbox container runtime
What are some alternatives?
container-shell - Starts and attaches a sandboxed shell using docker with access to the current or project directory
pandas-ai - Chat with your database (SQL, CSV, pandas, polars, mongodb, noSQL, etc). PandasAI makes data analysis conversational using LLMs (GPT 3.5 / 4, Anthropic, VertexAI) and RAG.
firebuild - Convenience of containers, security of virtual machines
agorakube - Agorakube is a Certified Kubernetes Distribution built on top of CNCF ecosystem that provides an enterprise grade solution following best practices to manage a conformant Kubernetes cluster for on-premise and public cloud providers.
catalog - Unikraft Applications & Examples Catalog
oxia - Oxia - Metadata store and coordination system
kata-containers - Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
HealthGPT - Query your Apple Health data with natural language 💬 🩺
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
keras-ocr - A packaged and flexible version of the CRAFT text detector and Keras CRNN recognition model.
firecracker-container