[HN Gopher] Show HN: Firecracker Lab - Build a microVM from a co...
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       Show HN: Firecracker Lab - Build a microVM from a container image
        
       Author : alexellisuk
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-04-05 20:08 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | alexellisuk wrote:
       | Many of the examples you'll find are broken due to changes in
       | Firecracker 1.0 - the official quickstart guide doesn't cover the
       | most interesting thing - working Internet access - or extracting
       | a filesystem from a container.
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       | Edit: I've added a link for a live-stream I'll be doing with
       | Richard Case from Weaveworks on use-cases, differences vs.
       | containers and legacy VMs - and a number of demos.
        
       | rahimnathwani wrote:
       | 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 container.
       | 
       | If you're only running your own code, is Firecracker better in
       | some way than just using docker?
        
         | alan-hn wrote:
         | It offers a greater degree of sandboxing
        
           | rahimnathwani wrote:
           | Right, but if I'm only running my own code, I probably don't
           | care about that, right?
        
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