[freakynit]

Serously, what flexibility?

I coud easily spin-up a firecracker VM on-demand and put it behind an API. It boots up in under 200 milliseconds. and I get to control it however I wish to. And also, all costs are under my control.

I compared the costs with instances purchased from Hetzner or Contabo here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45613653

Bottomline: by doing this small stuff myself, I can save 35 times more.

[chandureddyvari]

In my case, it is ignorance. I am not familiar with how to wield firecracker VMs and manage their lifecycle without putting a hole in my pocket. These sandbox services(e2b, Daytona, Vercel, etc.) package them in an intuitive SDK for me to consume in my application. Since the sandboxing is not the main differentiator for me, I am okay to leverage the external providers to fill in for me. That said, I will be grateful if you can point me to right resources on how to do this myself :)

[freakynit]

This is a pretty good use-case for an open-source project then.

For guide, just follow their official docs. I did those again today, literally copy-pasted shell commands one after the other, and voila.. had firecracker vm running and booting a full-fledge ubuntu vm.

It was sooo damn fast that when it started, at that moment I thought that my terminal had crashed because it's prompt changed. But nop. It was just that fast that even while literally looking at it I was not able to catch when it actually did boot-up.

By the way, two open-source projects already exist:

1. NodeJS: https://github.com/apocas/firecrackerode

2. Python: https://github.com/Okeso/python-firecracker

[freakynit]

Lol.. a full-fledged project just launched on Github using firecracker and giving cli/api interfaces: https://github.com/Katakate/k7