One tool for agents, clusters, and E2E tests – locally and in production

Hi, I'm the author of the article (OpenFaaS founder).

Slicer came about as an internal tool (2022) for rapid customer support where we needed real Linux or Kubernetes clusters, not in a few minutes, but as quickly as possible. It shares a lot of code with actuated (ephemeral, self-hosted CI runners).

It's grown and evolved and gained a Mac version which I mention in the post (with a video demo).

We're seeing fragmentation in the world of sandboxes - both in local or SaaS. We've seen that before with FaaS, and openfaas gave a consolidated UX.

We think slicervm can do the same today.

There are many SaaS and OSS tools in the VM and space. Slicer is a premium experience, that's fast and just works with opinionated defaults and a full Kernel, Ubuntu LTS and systemd.

Free trial available, or individual tier with commercial usage allowed.