Encore rebuilt its Linux microVM stack to run on Apple Silicon
We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
Encore rebuilt its Linux microVM build stack to run natively on Apple Silicon, creating crackling, a single API that drives Firecracker on Linux and Apple's Virtualization.framework on macOS. The move ends four years of remote-only development, letting engineers boot the same images locally on Macs. The project required rebuilding the Linux image toolchain to run on macOS.
Because the build system was remote, a local breakpoint would never fire and reading logs meant tailing a file over SSH.