Comparisons to ignite

[techknowlogick]

Hi 👋

Thanks for opensourcing this project. I was wondering since weaveworks already has ignite and that it seems to achieve similar goals to reignite, is it reasonable to assume that reignite is the successor to ignite (given this project's name)?

Thanks 🙂

[richardcase]

Hi @techknowlogick

flintlock (previously known as reignite) achieves similar goals to ignite in that at their core both create Firecracker microvms and use OCI images. ignites original use case was to bring a docker cli experience to Firecracker. However, flintlock is designed to be API driven (not cli drive) and to be used with a Cluster API provider we are building...that combined will result in Firecracker based Kubernetes clusters. So its more like the evolution of Ignite+Firekube with a focus on Cluster API. Also, we will be adding support for cloud hypervisor in addition to Firecracker.

Does that help?

[techknowlogick]

Awesome! Thanks for that detailed explanation:)