Top 4 Rust OCI Projects

youki

36 5,778 9.7 Rust

A container runtime written in Rust

Project mention: Youki: A container runtime written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-05

kata-containers

11 4,842 10.0 Rust

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/

Project mention: Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-03

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
kuasar

4 1,170 8.3 Rust

A multi-sandbox container runtime that provides cloud-native, all-scenario multiple sandbox container solutions.

Project mention: The advantage of WASM compared with container runtimes | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-28

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

eunomia-bpf

1 547 7.9 Rust

Build, Distribute and Run CO-RE eBPF programs easier with JSON and Webassembly OCI images

Project mention: eBPF Tutorial by Example 9: Capturing Scheduling Latency and Recording as Histogram | dev.to | 2024-01-20

We will use eunomia-bpf to compile and run this example. You can refer to https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/eunomia-bpf to download and install the ecc compilation toolkit and ecli runtime.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).