# firecracker-microvm/firecracker

> 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.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 37,313 total · +18 stars measured 2026-10-12, 00:18–11:03 UTC, ≈ 34 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: DevOps & infrastructure · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2017-10-19 · Last push: 2026-10-09
- GitHub: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker · Homepage: http://firecracker-microvm.io · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/firecracker-microvm/firecracker

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-12 (UTC), 00:18–11:03: 37295 → 37313 stars (+18). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +34 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,669
- Issues and pull requests: 6,155
- Watchers: 363
- Average over the last week: 24 per day
- Usual pace: 23 per day
- Latest release: v1.17.0 (2026-09-10)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 26, 26, 12, 27, 30, 26, 12, 24, 8, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-25 1.9, 09-26 1.5, 10-01 2.2, 10-02 2.0, 10-03 1.7, 10-04 1.6, 10-05 2.0, 10-06 1.9, 10-07 1.8, 10-08 2.2, 10-09 2.1, 10-10 2.0, 10-11 1.6, 10-12 2.1

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-12 11:12 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.