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Similar projects and alternatives to firebuild
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB ā Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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QEMU
Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
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containers-roadmap
This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).
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lxd
Discontinued Powerful system container and virtual machine manager [Moved to: https://github.com/canonical/lxd] (by lxc)
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cloud-hypervisor
A Virtual Machine Monitor for modern Cloud workloads. Features include CPU, memory and device hotplug, support for running Windows and Linux guests, device offload with vhost-user and a minimal compact footprint. Written in Rust with a strong focus on security.
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firecracker-containerd
firecracker-containerd enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs
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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/
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mariadb-podman-socket-activation
Demo of a templated systemd user service that runs rootless Podman and starts MariaDB with socket activation
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Hence, a higher number means a better firebuild alternative or higher similarity.
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Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?
https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild
Build firecracker vmms from dockerfiles. Learned a ton, never did anything with it but I want believe it influenced a bunch of people to look deeper into firecracker.
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My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container
A Dockerfile is just a file with a bunch of commands to execute and get a working "computer". https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild is fairly aged translation of the Dockerfile to a VM rootfs.
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We clone a running VM in 2 seconds
Regarding turning Dockerfiles into a MicroVM: https://gruchalski.com/posts/2021-03-23-introducing-firebuil..., on GitHub: https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild. This could get you started.
Disclaimer: Iām the author.
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Podman 4.0.0
> See, and in almost all of my use-cases, I really do. I do HPC computing, which is almost always a multi-tenant environment.
Maybe you need firecracker with something along the lines of https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild?
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Hypervisor for multi-tenant computing, like it should be
I was the one who posted that question and I deleted it because I understood I was asking to compare apple to oranges. Firecracker uses KVM under the hood. With regards to the overhead, sure, there's going to be resources needed but firecracker is pretty good at running VMs will low level overhead. We're talking thousands on a single host.
I've done some fair share of evaluating firecracker for https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild and the need to provision is red herring. firebuild can run a VM directly from a Dockerfile and Docker image. Fly.io team does something similar. It's basically a fully functional app out of the container within a matter of milliseconds.
What would be nice is to see a direct comparison between your solution and firecracker.
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Docker Without Docker
I am working on something like this: https://github.com/combust-labs/firebuild.
From a Dockerfile, it's not as simple without creating an image first.
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combust-labs/firebuild is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of firebuild is Go.
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