🤏☁️smol cloud is now live (beta) Get a virtual computer for yourself or your agent in seconds. 1. No need to configure CPU/MEM, it is dynamically allocated up to a 4cpu/8gb upper limit today. 2. You can integrate with the smol cli to run hundreds of agents in separate... cloud machines, or just locally with isolation guarantees. 3. $5 credit per month, only charged for active CPU/Mem/disk usage. Quick demo if you prefer web terminal access for your virtual computer.show more

Looking great, will give it a spin! Congrats!!

link: Schedule a demo if you want white glove onboarding

Congrats dude! Looking forward to checking it out!

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pretty cool, congrats. Do you use libkrun or firecracker for the cloud service? stripping qemu to be able to run dockerd locally was smart especially given how fast it is.

I am using smolvm

yea i figured. was mostly curious whether u assume the workloads are trusted or untrusted for the cloud service. That’s fundamentally different from running stuff locally which is what I’ve been using smolvm for

I assume workloads are untrusted, I maintain the isolation boundary with seccomp and landlock on top in the cloud version. I run multitenant workloads on my nodes so isolation becomes very important for me

cool. i havent seen lots of folks running libkrun for untrusted workloads atleast relative to firecracker. How’s the experience been wrapping isolation stuff over libkrun? Crun sorta works for containers but lots of stuff missing that makes it kinda hard to use(like exec)

It took a bit of work and hardening ontop as libkrun is designed to be minimalistic on purpose. But it also enabled me to make different trade offs compared to existing options. I've open sourced all of it as well, exec are built-in into smolvm:

Look what Dulus OS needs to be stronger @KevRojo

dynamic allocation is the right call, nobody wants to pick cpu/mem before the agent even does anything. nice launch

thanks, possible due to the underlying smolvm primitive using these two pieces: 1. virtio-ballooning: 2. sparse disk:

@ycombinator Nice!! Great work BinBin 🔥

How you thinking about secrets, credential brokering, and out of band approvals? We should chat 🧙‍♂️

@ycombinator The real unlock is removing infrastructure decisions from the agent loop. The less setup an agent needs, the more useful autonomy becomes.

@ycombinator Love this. I remember talking to you guys at the welcome part at Porter, being like damn these guys are capturing the perfect white space.

Portability across local and cloud … that's the real value

A polished launch video could make the value instantly obvious. 🎥

nah the dynamic resource thing is clever but ephemeral vms get weird fast when you're running real orchestration on top. state dies between runs and that breaks half my patterns

@ycombinator Open source?

@ycombinator 100% Verify my boot time + elastic resource allocation claims locally.