I'm curious if there are any future plans to support MicroVMs in Proxmox? https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ looks very promising for creating very low resource usage VMs (not containers) and is the technology backing AWS Fargate 1.4 without the Docker Engine as outlined in https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/09/aws_revamps_fargate_serverless_containers/.
MicroVM support
- Thread starter ewaldo
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No plans, because we have LXC containers with much lower ressource usage ...
But I guess it is possible to run such MicroVMs inside LXC or qemu VMs.
But I guess it is possible to run such MicroVMs inside LXC or qemu VMs.
qemu support microvm too
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/microvm.rst
(no hotplug, no livemigration currently)
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/microvm.rst
(no hotplug, no livemigration currently)
Nice, I didn't know about that. Thank you. Having the extra isolation that VMs bring is a benefit as long as there aren't processor vulnerabilities to worry about.
I tried to find some self-hosting equivalent of Fargate / Lambda, for example in Proxmox and I found this post.
At first sight, Firecracker looks good. @ewaldo , @spirit , thank you!
P.S.: I really love LXC but there are not a lot of API and tools to orchestrate them. For example, no official Ansible dynamic inventory for Proxmox.
At first sight, Firecracker looks good. @ewaldo , @spirit , thank you!
P.S.: I really love LXC but there are not a lot of API and tools to orchestrate them. For example, no official Ansible dynamic inventory for Proxmox.
I see this is a long dead there but we would like to be able to use microvm's for the additional isolation they provide paired with the near-contrainer-like spin time and(?) the cloud-init support.
My last comment has enough +1s that I guess others might find this useful. I intend to investigate the microvm thing and I will post to the forums if I make any progress.