Firecracker has cracks on functionalities
May 24, 2022
Firecracker has cracks on functionalities
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Firecracker
We have used Firecracker to deploy a few workloads in lightweight microVMs. Being an open-source virtualization software, it is able to manage effectively multi-tenant containers and function-based services alike. Although not the best, it works as it's supposed to as a virtual machine monitor but with very limited functions.
- It makes it easy to secure virtual machines as they are segmented into microvms with a minimal attack surface area
- 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.
- Low memory overhead on each microVM
- We can run workloads from different customers on the same machine.
Do you think Firecracker delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Firecracker's feature set?
No
Did Firecracker live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Firecracker go as expected?
No
Would you buy Firecracker again?
No