In this scenario you will learn about Firecracker, a secure, multi-tenant, minimal-overhead execution of container and function workloads.
You will learn how to:
Deploy Firecracker
Start an Alpine based instance using Firecracker
Login and explore instance
What is Firecracker?
Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that is purpose-built for creating and managing secure, multi-tenant container and function-based services that provide serverless operational models. Firecracker runs workloads in lightweight virtual machines, called microVMs, which combine the security and isolation properties provided by hardware virtualization technology with the speed and flexibility of containers.
Congratulations! You have successfully launched a Firecracker based VM.
The binaries are available on the Github release page.
Provide feedback and create more Firecracker scenarios at https://github.com/katacoda-scenarios/firecracker-microvm-scenarios
Learn more about Firecracker at https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

Steps
Getting Started with Firecracker
Step 1 - Install Firecracker
Firecracker is linked statically against musl, having no library dependencies. The binaries are available on the Github release page.
Firecracker uses the jailer
binary to create the secure, execution jail for the instance.
Task - Download
Run the following commands to download Firecracker v0.11.0.
curl -L -o firecracker http://assets.joinscrapbook.com/firecracker/firecracker-v0.11.0
curl -L -o jailer http://assets.joinscrapbook.com/firecracker/jailer-v0.11.0
chmod +x firecracker
chmod +x jailer
Task - Start
Once downloaded, check to ensure that Firecracker can run by outputting the version number.
./firecracker -V