Amazon recently released the Firecracker Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) built on top of the Linux KVM subsystem, which is optimized for lightweight, container-like “micro”-VMs. This session dives deep into the architecture of the firecracker-containerd project, which aims to allow portability between standard OCI container images and the larger container ecosystem with Firecracker micro-VMs. Topics covered will include the standard containerd architecture with the reference OCI …