Building a MicroVM Control Plane in Public

Over the past couple of years, I have been spending a lot of time with Firecracker, microVMs, and a distributed compute platform I have been building. It started with a simple goal: run Firecracker on a machine I control and understand every moving part. That sounds small, but it really is not. The first few steps are easy enough to explain. Boot a VM. Get KVM working. Start Firecracker. Launch a…