This repository contains all the scripts, source code, and data used for our NSDI 2020 paper on "Firecracker: Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Applications".

The ./prep directory contains scripts and other tools required to run the tests. Most tests uses minimal OS images build with linuxkit. It also contains a slightly modified version of firecracker and builds a new, statically linked binary for qemu.

The following should build everything:

cd ./prep make 

Binaries (and BIOS) are placed into ./bin and kernel and root filesystem images are placed into ./img.

A working docker and go installation is required for building, but not for running the tests and you should be able to copy the ./bin and ./img directories to a target system to run tests there without these pre-requisites.

This assumes you are running on a Ubuntu system.

Install some host side utilities

sudo apt update sudo apt install -y \ iperf3 \ jq \ hwloc-nox numactl \ 

There are a bunch of scripts in ./scripts. They assume you are in the ./scripts directory when you run them.

cd ./scripts ./run-all.sh ../data/test 

configures the host system and runs most of the tests. Test results are stored in the directory provided.