Firecracker Lab
Infrastructure
microvm lab
SHOW HN2022
35points
16comments
#1,171of 2,570 in 2022
Top 46%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
Objections
Use case unclear for people running only their own code versus using Docker
From 2 comments
I think I understand the use case for firecracker if you're a hosting provider like AWS or Fly.io: you don't want one customer's containers messing with those of another…
rahimnathwani on HNRight, but if I'm only running my own code, I probably don't care about that, right?
rahimnathwani on HN
Questions
Is Firecracker better than Docker when running only your own code?
From 1 comment
I think I understand the use case for firecracker if you're a hosting provider like AWS or Fly.io: you don't want one customer's containers messing with those of another…
rahimnathwani on HN
Alternatives named
Docker
From 1 comment
I think I understand the use case for firecracker if you're a hosting provider like AWS or Fly.io: you don't want one customer's containers messing with those of another…
rahimnathwani on HN
Ignite
From 1 comment
Depends, is your code being served to the internet? If it is I would definitely consider firecracker but if its just internal it probably won't matter a whole lot. Not sure about…
alan-hn on HN