The 1.5.0-rc2 release of Kata Containers introduced support for the Firecracker hypervisor. While we do not yet have packages available for Firecracker, we do have the built binary included as part of our release tarball. A Firecracker specific tarball was created which includes all of the configurations and binaries required for running Kata+Firecracker.
This is a quick guide to show how to quickly start playing with Kata + Firecracker in docker. This is the initial introduction, and we have plenty of work around optimizations, but I expect users to be able to use block based volumes (up to 7 per container right now) as well as multiple network interfaces with these containers.
I plan to update kata-deploy's container image to allow users a quick daemonset for installing and configuring Kata (with both QEMU and Firecracker) in a Kubernetes cluster which utilizes containerd and/o