We are extremely happy to announce—and this isn’t an April Fools’ Day prank—that Firecracker will be officially supported as a new hypervisor in the upcoming OpenNebula v.5.12!!!
@cgonzalez and the rest of the Engineering Team here at OpenNebula Systems have been working really hard to get this up and running
Thank you very much for all your work for this awesome software.
Opennebula is big of features and a powerful software. The learning curve is tense for people like me who started from almost no knowledge.
I’m trying to understand what we were talking about, firecracker? I took time to watch the video then I started my research on the web and I started to understand what is a microVM and how it works. But after all this time I can not understand the use case of a microVM. What can I run in a MicroVM, everything like in a VM?
Until now, you needed to choose between containers with fast startup times and high density, or VMs with strong hardware-virtualization-based security and workload isolation. With Firecracker, you no longer have to choose. Firecracker enables you to deploy workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which provide enhanced security and workload isolation over traditional VMs, while enabling the speed and resource efficiency of containers.
The idea of microVMs is to provide a way to deploy lighter VMs with less overhead, reducing the gap between the concept of VM and that of a container, thus allowing admins to manage container workloads in a more secure way, which is really important in a multi tenant environment.
