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In addition to the firecracker-containerd[0] architecture, there's also firecracker support in kata containers[1]. While firecracker aims to be as lean as possible[2], kata aims to be portable[3]. It would be swell if the bits that run inside the VM and the protocol that goes over the vsock or vserial proxy were interoperable, but I see that as rather unlikely to happen soon. 0. https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container... 1. https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initia... 2. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ 3. https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/blob/master...