Firecracker
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Firecracker scores 7.6/10 (Strong) in Sandboxes & Runtimes.
Language Rust License Apache-2.0 Stars 35.3k★ Type heavyweight Self-host Yes Repo firecracker-microvm/firecracker Homepage https://firecracker-microvm.github.io
Quality
Strong 7.6
Adoption 64
Activity 81
Maturity 100
Community 61
Capability 50
Show the math
Overall 7.6/10
value = 7.6/10
score = value
Adoption 6.7/10
value = 63.7/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Activity 8.3/10
value = 81/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Maturity 10/10
value = 100/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Community 6.5/10
value = 61.3/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Capability 5.5/10
value = 50/100
score = 1 + 9 * value / 100
Key metrics
35.3k★ GitHub stars
338/90d Recent commits
11 devs/90d Recent contributors
8.7y Project age
active Last commit
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Labels
- Self-hosted
Self-hosted
You deploy and operate it yourself; there is no hosted option here.
- Heavyweight
Heavyweight
Resource-heavy to run (GPU, large memory, or multi-service stack).
microvm kvm virtualization isolation serverless