vhaudiquet 0ad07c182f refactor: cut provision
The runtime runs images; building them belongs to the OCI ecosystem —
CI builds, digests, scanning — and a keyed local layer could never
offer a digest. Provision also installed packages through TSI, whose
per-stream throughput makes a real package install crawl exactly at
first use, and the bare-command shape mutated the shared cache entry
under the image's own name.

0.1 runs images: run, pull, probe — distro aliases, OCI references
with digest pins, local rootfs archives. The one honest idea provision
carried stays in SPEC's Later: provision by booting, for locked-down
hosts that cannot run any builder.
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ecrou

a small microVM runtime based on libkrun

Try ecrou in the terminal

Installation

ecrou is available as a strictly confined snap:

sudo snap install ecrou
sudo snap connect ecrou:kvm

Usage

$ ecrou run -it ubuntu
root@ecrou-vm-m2glhl:/# 

Embed ecrou into your project

ecrou is both a library and a tiny CLI frontend around it. The library is embeddable into any project, allowing to use microVMs easily.

Rust

ecrou is a Rust library, which can just be called:

use ecrou::vm::RunOptions;
use ecrou::NoProgress;

fn main() -> ecrou::Result<std::process::ExitCode> {
    let code = ecrou::vm::run(
        &RunOptions {
            image: "ubuntu:resolute".into(),
            command: vec!["uname".into(), "-a".into()],
            ..RunOptions::default()
        },
        &NoProgress,
    )?;
    Ok(std::process::ExitCode::from(code.clamp(0, 255) as u8))
}
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