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

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

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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.DETAILED SHOW NOTESWant the complete episode outline with detailed notes? Sign up here: https://mobycast.fm/show-notes/SUPPORT MOBYCASThttps://glow.fm/mobycastEND SONGThing Is by Public AddressMORE INFOFor a full transcription of this episode, please visit the episode webpage.We'd love to hear from you! You can reach us at:Web: https://mobycast.fmVoicemail: 844-818-0993Email: [email protected]: https://twitter.com/hashtag/mobycastReddit: https://reddit.com/r/mobycast

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