Face off: VMs vs. Containers vs Firecracker

When AWS released Firecracker in 2018, developers thought the potential was going to be limitless. Four years later, the project is much more mature and can even be integrated into Kubernetes, but when should you use it?

This talk covers the fundamentals of a Linux Operating System, and how isolation varies with legacy VMs, containers and microVMs.

You’ll learn how to integrate with Firecracker directly, or with existing cloud native looks like containerd, CNI and the OCI image spec.

There’ll be a live demo of microVMs in a real application developed by OpenFaaS, and a lab in a GitHub repo you can explore on your own after the talk.

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Speaker: Alex Ellis

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Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2023
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
April 16-17, 2023