Same, though it seems this acquisition is mainly about snaps, so we'll see.
I wish Nix would package Kata, a hybrid of containers and VMs. I would migrate to that from LXD.
It does have Firecracker and Ignite though, which I haven't tested but probably also suffice.
I recently gave Firecracker a try, via the friendlier interface of Ignite[1], and was pleasantly surprised how quick it was to start a VM from a Docker image, and how little resources it used. The UX is pretty much on par with Docker, yet gives much more flexibility, control, and of course, security.
I wish there was a competitor to QubesOS that uses KVM, and is a bit friendlier and more polished. Is there such a distro?
This is pretty much me and my homelab. I haven't visited it in a while, but Weave Ignite might be of interest here. https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
There's also ignite which works with firecracker: https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
And of course AWS Fargate and Lambda use this tech under the hood transparently, so that's always an option if you don't want to host and operate it yourself.
One of the things I am excited about is microvm orchestration with kubernetes. Weavework has a really cool project in that realm [1].
Weavework has been doing quite some good stuff around OCI interface around microvms. Ignite[1] which is more robust and productize version of what is mentioned in this blog. Other projects that should be watched out for is kata containers [2]
[1] https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
[2] https://gokulchandrapr.medium.com/kata-containers-on-kuberne...