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has a minimalist design. It excludes unnecessary devices and guest-facing
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functionality to reduce the memory footprint and attack surface area of each
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microVM. This improves security, decreases the startup time, and increases
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- hardware utilization. Firecracker currently supports Intel, AMD (beta) and Arm
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- (beta) CPUs. Firecracker can also be integrated in container runtimes. Checkout
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- [ Kata Containers with Firecracker.] ( https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initial-release-of-Kata-Containers-with-Firecracker-support )
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-
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+ hardware utilization. Firecracker currently supports Intel, AMD (preview) and
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+ Arm (preview) CPUs. Firecracker has also been integrated in container runtimes,
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+ for example
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+ [ Kata Containers] ( https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/wiki/Initial-release-of-Kata-Containers-with-Firecracker-support )
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+ and [ Weaveworks Ignite] ( https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite ) .
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Firecracker was developed at Amazon Web Services to accelerate the speed and
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efficiency of services like [ AWS Lambda] ( https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ ) and
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[ AWS Fargate] ( https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/ ) . Firecracker is open
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## Getting Started
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To get started with Firecracker, download the latest
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- [ release] ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases ) binaries or build it from source.
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+ [ release] ( https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases ) binaries
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+ or build it from source.
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You can build Firecracker on any system that has Docker running (we use a
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development container) as follows:
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toolchain=" $( uname -m) -unkown-linux-musl"
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```
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- The Firecracker binary will be placed at ` build/cargo_target/${toolchain}/debug/firecracker ` .
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- For more information on building, testing, and running Firecracker, go to the
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+ The Firecracker binary will be placed at
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+ ` build/cargo_target/${toolchain}/debug/firecracker ` . For more information on
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+ building, testing, and running Firecracker, go to the
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[ quickstart guide] ( docs/getting-started.md ) .
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The overall security of Firecracker microVMs, including the ability to meet the
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