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Fun experiment: started 100 Firecracker microVMs on a single bare metal server, and the 101st took less than 5 seconds to warm up 🚀 ...and at least 15 of those VMs were running K3s ...while the resource utilization stayed < 30% via iximiuz Labs ❤️🔥
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And the coolest part probably is that the server that powers at this moment isn't that powerful! i7-8700 CPU 3.20GHz (6 CPUs, 12 threads) and 128 GB RAM

Any of this open source? I’d love to see the process you use to make the firecracker disk images that allow the boot to be so quick!

My process is not much different from what ignite does It’s a good old “take a dockerfile and build it to a folder, then dump a kernel on top.” I described it a while ago in this blog post

What do you use for launching firecracker vms? Not ignite?

It’s a 100% custom daemon. Much like ignite but with a REST API and tailored for multi-VM playgrounds (so a bunch of extra networking magic).

Nice, I’m going to try this at some point

Looks awesome 👏

Thank you! 🙌

Where do you have your VM?

I have a couple of bare metal servers in Hetzner right now.
