Flintlock: A Service for Managing MicroVMs Backed by Containerd
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Palmik
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
Flintlock is a community-driven service designed to create and manage the lifecycle of microVMs on a host machine, supporting Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker VMMs. Originally developed by Weaveworks, it is now maintained by the community and is integral to virtualized Kubernetes clusters.
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The original use case for flintlock was to create microVMs on a bare-metal host where the microVMs will be used as nodes in a virtualized Kubernetes cluster.
This project was originally developed by Weaveworks but is now owned & run by the community.
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