Firecracker vs. OpenText Hybrid Workspaces

While deploying workloads in lightweight microVMs presents a couple of perks, Firecracker may not be the best software to handle this. Startup times are slow and scalability is quite limited because of the jailer and virtualization barriers. We have had security breaches on isolated EC2 instances while using Firecracker. It however has a silver lining by improving how serverless functions in container ecosystems are run with their VMMs.

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It is very well suited to large, diverse organizations looking to quickly deploy applications virtually to its employee base. They give immense control to system
Admins and allow users to more easily install the applications they need. They also allow users quick access to their applications, even during migration.

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• It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area

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• It allowed us to isolate applications so that they did not adversely interact with other applications.
• They served as a virtual machine while we managed the migration to a new OS.
• They helped us decrease malicious attacks because web browsers operating within a container could be terminated if an attack occurred.
• They allowed us to quickly deploy applications across a diverse, global organization.

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• Excludes devices unnecessarily
• Has a slow startup time the basis being to improve security which is quite irrelevant.
• It has limited functionalities on monitoring VMs despite being an open source.

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• Container access and restrictions were a bit cumbersome to set up.
• We would frequently have users report containers failing to work properly due to file size.
• There was very little documentation we could provide to users during onboarding

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We went with Desktop Containers because we had a former colleague recommend it. However, we do feel we made the right choice for our organization.

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• Low memory overhead on each microVM
• We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.

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• We were able to migrate to a different OS 50% more quickly than in the past.
• We saw a dramatic decrease in malicious attacks while using this product.
• Our users were able to more quickly get access to the products they needed.
• We no longer needed to worry about applications not playing nice with others since they were isolated

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