On Saturday night at 1am, much to my alarm my phone started blowing up every few minuets from my @ubiquiti Dream Machine reporting malicious traffic! What was going on? I promise this is a real thread 🧵 The first place I looked was the Unifi network traffic inspector, which allowed me to easily figure out which IP the requests were coming from. It turns out there were two different alerts that were both coming from the wired and WiFi IPs for my work laptop.

I often hear people ask why Kubernetes and Firecracker (FC) can’t just be used together. It seems like an intuitive combination, Kubernetes is popular for orchestration, and Firecracker provides strong isolation boundaries. So why aren’t they compatible yet? Read on 🧵 First a brief explanation of Firecracker. Firecracker is a virtual machine monitor (vmm) written in Rust (read: cool) that was open sourced by AWS in 2018. I _highly_ recommend reading the FC paper for a more thorough explanation of what it is and is not. amazon.science/publications/f…