Firecracker Charter

Mission

Our mission is to enable secure, multi-tenant, minimal-overhead execution of container and function workloads.

Tenets (unless you know better ones)

These tenets guide Firecracker's development:

1. Built-In Security: We provide compute security barriers that enable multi-tenant workloads, and cannot be mistakenly disabled by customers. Customer workloads are simultaneously considered sacred (shall not be touched) and malicious (shall be defended against). We continuously invest in defense in depth and maintain mechanisms that ensure security best practices.
2. Light-Weight Virtualization: We prioritize measuring Firecracker's hardware overhead in the dimensions that are important for our customers, and we strive to make this overhead negligible.
3. Minimalist in Features: If it's not clearly required for our mission, we won't build it. We maintain a single implementation per capability, and deprecate obsolete implementations; resolving exceptions is a high priority issue.
4. Compute Oversubscription: All of the hardware compute resources exposed by Firecracker to guests can be securely oversubscribed.

Contributions & Project Roles

All contributions must align with this charter and follow Firecracker's contribution process.

Firecracker maintainers merge contributions into the main branch and create Firecracker releases. Maintainers are also subject to the mission and tenets outlined above. Anyone may submit and review contributions.