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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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What it is

Facilitates running Wasm / WASI workloads managed by containerd

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 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

What Hacker News says

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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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