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runwasi
Rust2022–2025
containerd / runwasi

runwasi

Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

4Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
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Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-05-03 23:14:18 UTC to 2025-04-29 16:50:57 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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More like, an attempt in the field from 2 years ago > [Warning] This project is currently not actively maintained. But there is a library by them to build containerd shims with which is maintained: https://github.com/containerd/runwasi Let's just entertain the idea and pretend that this is a notable project and that one would count it as DevOps tooling. Here are the top 10 across the CNCF in terms of size, courtesy of GitHub's API: C++: 3195829832 Java: 2908175049 Go: 2005598094 C: 1225503783 Python: 931070259 LLVM: 594277917 C#: 484071185 Rust: 460427159 TypeScript: 428904119 JavaScript: 273074800 This is the best-case scenario, including irrelevant categories like databases and VMMs that ought to be written in Rust (or C++). As far as Microsoft itself goes, they have a new push to ~~lock-in~~ em
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brace and extend cloud customers: https://blog.radapp.io/posts/2024/04/16/radius-accepted-as-c... As far as recent projects that gained traction with the CNCF go, I found some nice write-ups: https://blog.palark.com/cncf-sandbox-2023-h1/ https://blog.palark.com/cncf-sandbox-2023-h2/ https://blog.palark.com/cncf-sandbox-2024-h1/ Go: 30 Rust: 4 (once to implement another lang) Python: 2 Java: 1 and 2 that are mixed (Go+{C,Rust}) Fun fact, one of the 30 is Eraser - by Deis Labs.
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The way this works is it uses a containerd shim. In containerd-land, shims are responsible for all the platform dependent setup/management of a container. The "normal" shim on Linux is the runc shim (io.containerd.runc.v2). On Windows the shim is called runhcs (io.containerd.runhcs.v1). The docker solution mentioned in the article modifies the "wasmtime" shim from https://github.com/containerd/runwasi so that it uses "wasmedge" instead. It also happens to be using an unreleased version of dockerd. So how does this work with compose? Currently you need to specify the runtime for the container, there should be an option in the compose yaml for this. How does it work with pods? You need to configure containerd's cri config with a runtime handler that specifies the wasmedge shim. Then you add a RuntimeClass to k8s and add that to your pod spe
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