Show HN: Hyper – distributed Firecracker microVM orchestrator written in Elixir

Category: infrastructure

Tags: elixir, microvm, orchestrator, firecracker, distributed-systems

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Hyper is a distributed orchestrator for Firecracker microVMs built in Elixir on the BEAM, offering features like affinity-based scheduling, copy-on-write disk layering, and a gRPC interface. It is interesting because it combines BEAM-native fault-tolerance with microVM orchestration to provide scalable, high-performance sandboxing with minimal external dependencies.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, platform engineers

Repository: https://github.com/harmont-dev/hyper · Elixir · MIT · 13 stars

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