The Future of Containers - Part 2 - Making Sense of MicroVMs (continued)

In this episode, we cover the following topics:

• We revisit a misunderstanding from last week's show to find out exactly what the Firecracker team means when they list "Single VM per Firecracker process" as a security benefit.
• We discuss what's next on the Firecracker product roadmap, with particular emphasis on support for snapshot/restore.
• We learn how AWS uses Firecracker in production today with AWS Lambda.
• AWS is currently working on updating Fargate to use Firecracker. We look at why they are doing this and the design details of updating Fargate to use Firecracker.
• We finish by looking at how you can use Firecracker for your own containers, by incorporating Firecracker-aware tooling into your container infrastructure. Specifically, we look at firecracker-containerd and Weave Ignite.

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