Firecracker Courses and Certifications

Rawkode Academy

Hands-on Introduction to Firecracker - Running and Managing MicroVMs

Comprehensive introduction to Firecracker, covering installation, running microVMs, and key features like snapshots. Ideal for developers interested in lightweight virtualization for secure, efficient container and serverless services.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Firecracker - Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications

Explore Firecracker, a lightweight VMM for serverless applications, offering strong security and minimal overhead. Learn about its design, deployment, and impact on AWS Lambda and Fargate services.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

A Journey to Support vGPU in Firecracker

Explore ARM GPU virtualization in Firecracker, covering motivations, implementation, challenges, and future possibilities for enhanced cloud computing performance.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Docker

Deep Dive into Firecracker-Containerd

Explore firecracker-containerd architecture, challenges in adapting containers to micro-VMs, and the project's goals for OCI image portability with Firecracker's lightweight virtualization.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Serverless - Functions, Containers and Beyond

Explore serverless computing evolution, from AWS Lambda to container technologies and Firecracker. Learn about innovative offerings, future trends, and their impact on application architecture.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Secure and Fast MicroVM for Serverless Computing

Explore Firecracker: an open-source virtualization technology for secure, efficient serverless computing. Learn its design, architecture, and integration with AWS services and open-source projects.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

What Are MicroVMs and Why Should I Care

Explore microVMs: their definition, use cases, and open-source implementations. Learn about workload isolation, hardware acceleration, and why this technology matters for service providers and software vendors.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Multi-region Service Mesh: Building and Operating with Kuma and Envoy

Discover how Koyeb built a globally distributed service mesh using Kuma and Envoy, enabling inter-service connectivity across cloud providers and continents. Learn about key decisions, architecture, and challenges faced.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

GoLab conference

Building a Cloud Platform for Global Deployments in Go

Explore building a cloud platform for global Go app deployments using BareMetal, Nomad, Kuma, and gRPC. Learn key strategies for worldwide distribution and scalability.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

KVM Forum

Rust-VMM - Updates, Adoption, and Future Directions

Discover rust-vmm's evolution, integration with Firecracker and Cloud Hypervisor, RISC-V support, monorepo plans, and virtio/vhost-user device capabilities for VMM development.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Devoxx

How to Develop, Run and Optimize Spring Boot 3 Applications on AWS Lambda

Discover how to deploy Spring Boot 3 applications on AWS Lambda, comparing container options and optimizing performance through GraalVM Native Image, SnapStart, and CRaC implementation strategies.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

DevConf

Serverless MicroVMs for Containerized Applications

Explore how Serverless MicroVMs combine container speed with VM security using Firecracker and Ignite for enhanced isolation in cloud-native serverless applications.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

OpenInfra Foundation

Towards Secure Container Infrastructure on RISC-V - The Development from Rust VMM to Kata Containers

Explore building secure container infrastructure on RISC-V using RustVMM-based virtualization stack and Kata-Containers for lightweight hypervisors.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reusing Bazel's Analysis Cache by Cloning Micro-VMs

Discover how to optimize Bazel-integrated CI workflows using Firecracker micro-VMs with snapshotting to reuse analysis cache, reducing build times by 8x and enabling remote snapshot sharing across machines.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

DevConf

99.99% Availability with Sub-Millisecond VM Provisioning on Bare-Metal

Discover how to achieve 99.99% availability with sub-millisecond VM provisioning on bare-metal using open-source tools like Nomad, Firecracker, and Ignite, reducing cloud costs while maintaining high security and reliability.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video