Building a Firecracker VM Orchestrator in Go — Part 1: Provider Interfaces
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Introduction I'm building Flames, an open-source control plane for managing microVMs powered by Firecracker and Jailer. The goal is a straightforward API to spin up, orchestrate, and tear down lightweight VMs — the kind of ephemeral, hardware-isolated environments that are becoming critical infrastructure. Especially in the AI ecosystem, where you're running untrusted code, agent workflows, or sandboxed execution, container-level isolation isn't enough. You need real VM boundaries wit