Building a Firecracker-Powered Course Platform to Learn Docker and Kubernetes

  • This is neat. I left cloud infra work before everyone wanted k8s knowledge and Ive always assumed im 50% of the way there having docker and nomad experience

  • This is awesome, a lot of work to give users a interactive environment. I am working on a similar setup with my own project, vimgolf.ai , where I help users learn vim through connecting users with vim instances.

  • This is amazing! We built something similar at Jetstack based on Kata Containers, but it was running in Kubernetes itself.

    This is exactly what I would love to build if I had the time <3

  • Awesome article, out of curiosity, how much time did it take you to implement all of that?

    I have a somewhat similar need, but for a totally different space hence the question.

  • I've seen variations of this a few times, especially with Firecracker. I'm surprised there aren't ready made solutions for this use case already.

  • Wait, how do you run firecracker VMs in containers? The networking part of firecracker has been the most painful for me, I’d love to know more.

  • I haven’t tried a course yet but Ivan, the creator, is great. IIRC codesandbox also uses firecracker and has a few blogposts on its setup

  • Cool platform. Really keen on seeing the Dagger course finished.

  • so you are using firecracker strictly as a featherweight virtualized environment and to save money in cloud bloat-charges yes?

  • This is great

  • Very cool

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