firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

99 best points · 42 comments · 10 Hacker News posts · 37,843 GitHub stars · View on GitHub

Hacker News discussions

• Firecracker v1.0 Released (99 points, 17 comments, by ciprian_craciun, 2022-01-31)
• Firecracker now supports raspberry pi 4B (92 points, 10 comments, by antmanler, 2019-11-05)
• Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing (45 points, 5 comments, by pykello, 2025-08-29)
• AWS Firecracker - Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing (24 points, 10 comments, by mcrute, 2018-11-27)
• Firecracker Entropy for VM Clones (11 points, 0 comments, by transpute, 2025-04-11)
• Firecracker on the RPi4, code now upstream (4 points, 0 comments, by _ananos_, 2019-11-01)
• Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing (2 points, 0 comments, by tsujp, 2022-02-07)
• Firecracker (2 points, 0 comments, by tosh, 2022-11-16)
• Add FreeBSD kernel+rootfs build instructions · firecracker-microvm/firecracker (2 points, 0 comments, by rodrigo975, 2023-08-15)
• Entropy for Clones (1 points, 0 comments, by weinzierl, 2025-04-13)