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by hhh 973 days ago
I have yet to find a firecracker-style thing for k8s that is simple to deploy. Firekube seemed interesting, but is archived...

Liquid Metal from Weaveworks seems interesting but I don't even know where I would start.

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Virtink[1] has been reasonably stable as long as you're okay with Cloud Hypervisor instead.

[1] https://github.com/smartxworks/virtink

Kata just released a new version, it is the only thing that I've found easy to setup with k8s... though my experience running Docker-in-Kata hasn't been very good.
We were looking at Kata as well, especially as an 'easier' firecracker, though I forgot why we didn't go further, and I've been curious why they seem to get little attention in practice

I believe part is portability, as they may require nested virtualization features to be available, and maybe QEMU overhead. Maybe also something about use in China vs elsewhere?

They (and QEMU) have been around a long time...