Could it be made even faster using some of the ideas from https://github.com/zerobootdev/zeroboot ?
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#102I like the name ! :)
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#103Why would I prefer smol machines over docker sandbox? Do you have an elevator pitch?
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#104I like the name ! :)
Me too but I loove the icon
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#105Hello, I'm building a replacement for docker containers with a virtual machine with the ergonomics of containers + subsecond start times. I worked in AWS previously in the container space + with firecracker. I realized the container is an unnecessary layer that slowed things down + firecracker was a technology designed for AWS org structure + usecase. So I ended up building a hybrid taking the best of containers with…
Hey this is super cool. I've been researching tech like this for my AI sandboxing solution, ended up with Lima+Incus: https://github.com/JanPokorny/locki My problem with microVMs was that they usually won't run docker / kubernetes, I work on apps that consist of whole kubernetes clusters and want the sandbox to contain all that. Does your solution support running k3s for example?
With instavm (https://instavm.io), you can provide an OCI image built from a dockerfile.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
With this approach I managed to get to sub-10ms start (to pid1), if you can accept a few constraints there's plenty of room! Though my version was only tested on Linux hosts
would be interested to see how you do it, how can I connect with you - emotionally?
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#108Congrats that looks really amazing!
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#109Sounds very similar to the various unikernel implementations floating around ? Such as Unikernel[1]
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#110Sounds very similar to the various unikernel implementations floating around ? Such as Unikernel[1] [1] https://unikraft.org
unikraft's internals are not open source so I can't say.
But smol machines are not an implementation of unikernel - it's basically just the linux kernel but slimmed down. So, more compatible with most software.