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

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153 points by fazkan 9 months ago · 13 comments

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notesinthefield 9 months ago

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

  • written-beyond 9 months ago

    I never left cloud infra, though I never came across a scale that required k8s anything close to that scale would just go on serverless functions anyway. However, I will agree with you that I've always assumed that I'm too 50% of the way there with docker and misc experience.

nickandbro 9 months ago

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.

bittermandel 9 months ago

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

suralind 9 months ago

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.

MortyWaves 9 months ago

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.

fideloper 9 months ago

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.

plondon514 9 months ago

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

sepositus 9 months ago

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

bzmrgonz 9 months ago

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

tekichan 9 months ago

This is great

la64710 9 months ago

Very cool

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