Firecracker Alternatives

firecracker reviews and mentions

• Show HN: Ephemeral VMs in 1 Microsecond
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2024

  Well, FireCracker has a jailer process: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

• Show HN: Prisma Postgres. Runs on bare metal and unikernels
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Oct 2024
• Show HN: Desktop Sandbox for Secure Cloud Computer User
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2024

  Hello, I'm the CEO of the company that built this - E2B [0]. We're building infrastructure for AI code interpreting. Companies like Perplexity are using us.

  We're using Firecrackers [1] to power our sandboxes. Funnily enough, we had this repo sitting on our GitHub for about 6 months. We originally made this for one of our customers because they were running evals on the desktop-like environment with GUI for their model.

  You can use PyAutoGUI [2] to control the whole environment programmatically.

  The desktop-like environment is based on Linux and Xfce [3] at the moment. We chose Xfce because it's a fast and lightweight environment that's also popular and actively supported. However, this Sandbox template is fully customizable and you can create your own desktop environment.

  Let me know if you have any questions!

  [0] https://e2b.dev

  [1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

  [2] https://pyautogui.readthedocs.io/

  [3] https://www.xfce.org/

• I'm Funding Ladybird Because I Can't Fund Firefox
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2024

  What he said is true, AWS uses Rust heavily in some of AWS core systems https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/why-aws-is-the-best-plac....

  Some of the open source projects you can find are AWS Firecracker https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker and Cloudflare Pingora https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora

• Lambda Internals: Why AWS Lambda Will Not Help With Machine Learning
  1 project | dev.to | 25 Apr 2024

  This architecture leverages microVMs for rapid scaling and high-density workloads. But does it work for GPU? The answer is no. You can look at the old 2019 GitHub issue and the comments to it to get the bigger picture of why it is so.

• Show HN: Add AI code interpreter to any LLM via SDK
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024

  Hi, I'm the CEO of the company that built this SDK.

  We're a company called E2B [0]. We're building and open-source [1] secure environments for running untrusted AI-generated code and AI agents. We call these environments sandboxes and they are built on top of micro VM called Firecracker [2].

  You can think of us as giving small cloud computers to LLMs.

  We recently created a dedicated SDK for building custom code interpreters in Python or JS/TS. We saw this need after a lot of our users have been adding code execution capabilities to their AI apps with our core SDK [3]. These use cases were often centered around AI data analysis so code interpreter-like behavior made sense

  The way our code interpret SDK works is by spawning an E2B sandbox with Jupyter Server. We then communicate with this Jupyter server through Jupyter Kernel messaging protocol [4].

  We don't do any wrapping around LLM, any prompting, or any agent-like framework. We leave all of that on users. We're really just a boring code execution layer that sats at the bottom that we're building specifically for the future software that will be building another software. We work with any LLM. Here's how we added code interpreter to Claude [5].

  Our long-term plan is to build an automated AWS for AI apps and agents.

  Happy to answer any questions and hear feedback!

  [0] https://e2b.dev/

  [1] https://github.com/e2b-dev

  [2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

  [3] https://e2b.dev/docs

  [4] https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/messaging.ht...

  [5] https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b-cookbook/blob/main/examples/c...

• Fly.it Has GPUs Now
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024

  As far as I know, Fly uses Firecracker for their VMs. I've been following Firecracker for a while now (even using it in a project), and they don't support GPUs out of the box (and have no plan to support it [1]).

  I'm curious to know how Fly figured their own GPU support with Firecracker. In the past they had some very detailed technical posts on how they achieved certain things, so I'm hoping we'll see one on their GPU support in the future!

  [1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/issues/11...

• MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024

  I pass through a GPU and USB hub to a VM running on a machine in the garage. An optical video cable and network compatible USB extender brings the interface to a different room making it my primary “desktop” computer (and an outdated laptop as a backup device). Doesn’t get more silent and cool than this. Another VM on the garage machine gets a bunch of hard drives passed through to it.

  That said, hardware passthrough/VFIO is likely out of the current realistic scope for this project. VM boot times can be optimized if you never look for hardware to initialize in the first place. Though they are still likely initializing a network interface of some sort.

  “MicroVM” seems to be a term used when as much as possible is stripped from a VM, such as with https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

• Virtual Machine as a Core Android Primitive
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023

  According to their own FAQ it is indeed: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...

• Sandboxing a .NET Script
  1 project | /r/dotnet | 22 Oct 2023

  What about microVMs like firecracker?

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