firecracker-microvm/firecracker

Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.

DevOps & infrastructureRust#virtual-machine#sandbox#virtualization#rust#containers

1.9 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

Firecracker is a Rust-based VMM that uses KVM to run lightweight microVMs with minimal overhead and hardware-level isolation. It is designed for secure multi-tenant execution of container and serverless workloads.

Useful for

Boot a microVM with a given kernel and rootfs via the Firecracker API
Configure rate limiters for virtio devices to cap microVM bandwidth
Isolate production workloads using the Jailer and seccomp filters

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

13 stars so far today, about 16 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 36,811
Stars in a day: 16
Forks: 2,635
Issues and pull requests: 6,124
Watchers: 361
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.17.0 · September 10, 2026
Created: October 19, 2017
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 16, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +19 stars
September 15, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +20 stars

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