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What is wasmCloud?

wasmCloud is a dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime for securely connecting actors and capability providers, from Cosmonic headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Users can build functions and services in WebAssembly and run them anywhere. Functions and services can be built…

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Popular Features

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  • Elastic load balancing (6)
    7.9
    79%
  • Security controls (6)
    7.9
    79%
  • Dynamic scaling (6)
    7.6
    76%
  • Pre-configured templates (5)
    5.5
    55%
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What is wasmCloud?

wasmCloud is a dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime for securely connecting actors and capability providers, from Cosmonic headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Users can build functions and services in WebAssembly and run them anywhere. Functions and services can be built in the…

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Product Demos

wasmCloud: Washboard Hot Reload Demo, Roadmap Review, Community Announcements! - 11/24/2021

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wasmCloud: ML - Image Processing Demo, Python Capability Provider Demo - 04/13/22

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wasmCloud: Host Configuration Demo, Roadmap Review, Community Callout! - 11/10/2021 Community Call

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wasmCloud Community Call 1/6/21: Introducing wasi-nn Demo

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wasmCloud: Polyglot A2A Calls, wash build Demo - 08/24/22

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wasmCloud: CI/CD Process Update, k8s Operator + Lattice Controller Demo - 10/27/2021 Community Call

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Features

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet

7.6
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is wasmCloud?

wasmCloud Video

WebAssembly: The Future of Distributed Computing

wasmCloud Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

wasmCloud is a dynamic, elastically scalable WebAssembly host runtime for securely connecting actors and capability providers, from Cosmonic headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Users can build functions and services in WebAssembly and run them anywhere. Functions and services can be built in the language desired and run securely, everywhere. wasmCloud is available free and open source.

Reviewers rate Operating system support highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of wasmCloud are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found wasmCloud to be a valuable tool for scaling their applications safely and deploying microservices using a new architecture that reduces their security profile. By leveraging WebAssembly instead of containers, users can enhance the security of their applications. This innovative approach has been recommended by Red Badger, a digital product transformation consultancy, as a game-changing platform that is cloud vendor agnostic, efficient, and performant. Clients have reported that wasmCloud simplifies the process of building and deploying modern, distributed, multi-cloud web applications, making them easy to build and maintain. Additionally, companies with multiple clouds and on-premise platforms have found that wasmCloud allows them to combine everything into one homogenous global platform, simplifying their infrastructure management. It has the potential to upend current technology stacks that are tightly coupled to cloud vendors and give developers and business owners new ways to run their business on different environments such as on-premises, on edge devices, or in the cloud. Users have praised wasmCloud for its ability to simplify their day-to-day work and allow them to focus on writing code that gets work done. Moreover, it is being evaluated and explored as a potential solution for developing next-generation distributed intelligence platforms and as an entry point to introduce server-side WebAssembly to enterprises.

Exceptional Security Features: Several users have praised the platform for its exceptional security features. They have found it effortless to host secure and multi-tenant workloads, independent of the underlying network architecture or geography. This streamlined security approach has helped reduce code bloat and enhance application security.

Simplicity of Deployment Model: Many reviewers have highlighted the simplicity of the deployment model as a strong point of the platform. They find it easy to build a global platform that can run and scale anywhere, regardless of location. The location agnostic feature adds flexibility and convenience for developers, while small portable binaries contribute to an uncomplicated deployment process.

Multi-Language Support: A number of users appreciate the multi-language support provided by the platform. It allows for independent development in different languages, enabling collaboration between developers using languages like Rust and Go. This ployglot capability facilitates efficient teamwork and expands possibilities for developers.

Lack of self-hosting support and details: Several users have expressed the need for wasmCloud to improve its support for self-hosting and external services. They also desire more information on self-hosting platforms, indicating a lack of clarity in this area.

Issues with securing providers and trust chains: Reviewers have mentioned that wasmCloud may be lacking when it comes to securing providers and trust chains. This suggests that there might be vulnerabilities or uncertainties in terms of ensuring the integrity and security of these components.

Complexity of actor languages and deployments: Many users have voiced their desire for simpler actor languages and deployments. They find the current process involving Makefiles to be less than ideal, indicating a need for a more streamlined approach to coding actors within wasmCloud.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In our R&D group, we are looking at wasmCloud as a potential product to use for the development of our next-generation distributed intelligence platform. We intend to run distributed applications all across the electric grid to handle new use cases such as local intelligence, machine learning, power flow coordination, and enhancement of grid resiliency for tomorrow's electric grid. WASM-based applications give us the portability to run any application on any platform that we choose in the future.
  • Small portable binaries
  • Enhanced application security
  • Independent development of actors and capabilities
  • Programming language adoption for creating WASM binaries
  • Runtime updating/upgrading
Non-embedded IoT and distributed applications are a pretty good fit.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (9)
43.33333333333333%
4.3
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
N/A
N/A
Dynamic scaling
70%
7.0
Elastic load balancing
80%
8.0
Pre-configured templates
N/A
N/A
Monitoring tools
N/A
N/A
Pre-defined machine images
70%
7.0
Operating system support
90%
9.0
Security controls
80%
8.0
Automation
N/A
N/A
  • None yet as we are still in the R&D phase of using the product. More to come though!
All of the folks at wasmCloud/Cosmonic are super knowledgeable people that are more than willing to help you figure out your problem or help you with architectural questions.
wasmCloud is still in the early stages of development but the product is rapidly evolving and stabilizing and I feel it will be a preferred way of deploying and managing remote, distributed applications in the future.
Haven't used yet
Have not made a purchase yet as we are still in the POC stage.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Most modern technology stacks have acquired a large volume of overhead with various niches occupied and maintained by highly skilled and highly paid experts. Companies that aren't forced to acknowledge the problem of legacy systems have been opting for frameworks that are tightly coupled to cloud vendors such as AWS Lambda. Lambda gives them a narrow scope to focus on core business logic but little freedom to get outside of the walled garden. WasmCloud could upend all of that and give developers and business owners new ways to run their business on-prem, on edge, or back in the cloud. I use wasmCloud to simplify my day-to-day work, it lets me get to business and gets out of my way to write code that gets work done. I recommend anyone doing any level of prototyping work focus on what wasmCloud has to offer.
  • Host density of workloads
  • Streamlined security approach to writing code and reducing bloat
  • Interoperability of modules written in different languages
  • Simplified open-source model for on-boarding devs, i.e. bare host no elixir/GUI
  • Home-labbers guide to wasmCloud
  • Spark more community involvement for capability providers
If you want to start pivoting your legacy code into a serverless paradigm this is the platform to target. If you want to start moving away from walled gardens and back into a space where code isn't centralized, costs can be offset by utilizing customer or edge hardware this is the platform to focus on. If you want a model that will scale well past many of the existing serverless frameworks, that won't get caught up in the security weaknesses of current paradigms this is what you need to invest in. If you want modern code to interact with legacy code in a safe way that doesn't expose vulnerabilities you can't patch against wasmCloud is awesome. If you want to write simple code that can jump from cloud to cloud to the user or edge node check it out!
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) (9)
66.66666666666667%
6.7
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
90%
9.0
Dynamic scaling
100%
10.0
Elastic load balancing
90%
9.0
Pre-configured templates
30%
3.0
Monitoring tools
90%
9.0
Pre-defined machine images
N/A
N/A
Operating system support
100%
10.0
Security controls
100%
10.0
Automation
N/A
N/A
  • WasmCloud has massively simplified the required ops expertise needed to run modern software.
I haven't used support.
What wasmCloud makes trivial to accomplish with code execution is leaps and bounds simpler than the status quo for developers, spinning up a host either on an edge device or inside an existing Kubernetes cluster, hitting the washboard to deploy your actor, and watching it scale automatically with your workload is magic.
The team is incredibly helpful and informative about the product - I have not needed to use their professional services thus far.
I have not negotiated any contracts yet but will do in the future
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