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Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

Kern launches a 1.5MB daemon-free container runtime with CPU/RAM limits and OCI image support for isolated tasks.

yesterday · 20:24:59 · primary fetch1 sourceupdated yesterday · 20:24:59

I built kern because I needed a fast, zero-daemon tool to set CPU/RAM limits and run isolated tasks without the overhead of Docker. It's a single 1.5MB Rust binary using OCI images, cgroup v2, and namespaces.

Boxes start in ~3.5ms. It's not a Kubernetes CRI or a microVM, just a standalone container and resource runtime for CLI and agents.

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