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Episode 58 : Firecracker

• Hosted by @jbeda
• Recording date: 2018-11-30

Table of Contents

• 00:00:00 - Welcome to TGIK!
• 00:04:00 - Week in Review
• 00:14:00 - Let's get Started
• 00:18:00 - Diagram time, how's it work?
• 00:39:00 - Let's do some stuff, but first a roll call
• 00:43:00 - Let's run it, in GCE(!)
• 00:47:00 - Let's check /dev/kvm

Show Notes

What is Firecracker?

Micro VM - virtual machine manager

• Announcement Blog
• Firecracker Homepage
• Github Repo
• Announcement Video
• Firecracker Katacoda

Leverages KVM, driven my QEMU, written in Rust. (GCE VMM is C++ back from when Joe worked on it). These are the only 4 devices (virtio net / virtio block / 1-pin of i8042, and UART). eg. no GPU support. Firecracker is ~40k lines of code, including the auto-generated system call bindings. Most importantly, the logo has 7 sides, so it's clearly designed for Kubernetes

Reference Links

• CKA and CKAD sale
• Heptio training @ KubeCon
• Envoy graduates!
• K8s v1.13 is trucking!
  • Release Schedule
  • v1.13.0-rc.1
  • rc.2 being cut today
  • Target for release is Dec 3
  • Here's a recent status report from SIG Release if you want some insight on the process of releasing Kubernetes
  • Kubernetes Contributor Summit Schedule - sessions will be on YouTube afterwards
• AWS announcements
• AWS reInvent Announcements