What Is Firecracker and Why Does It Exist?
Build a clear mental model of Firecracker before touching the tooling. You will learn what KVM provides, what a VMM adds on top, and why Firecracker is built differently from more general-purpose hypervisors.
This course is temporarily unavailable
We've disabled nested virtualization following a series of serious security vulnerabilities in KVM and the Linux kernel. This course depends on it, so it will be available again once we can safely turn nested virtualization back on.
Work on Pause
We'll finish this part when work resumes
This course depends on nested virtualization, which is currently disabled for security reasons. Work is on hold until we can safely re-enable it. Once that happens, we'll pick up where we left off.
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