A Virtual Machine Monitor implementation that creates and manages microVMs using KVM
Open source virtualization software built on Linux
Firecracker Usages
microvs excludes unnecessary devices and guest-facing functionality to reduce the memory footprint and attack surface area of each microVM
This improves security, decreases the startup time, and increases hardware utilization
Firecracker has also been integrated in container runtimes, for example Kata Containers and Weaveworks Ignite

Seonglae Cho
