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binsquaretoday at 8:24 AM1 replyview on HN

maintainer, I would recommend trying out: https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

It has network filtering + placeholders for secrets.

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reddectoday at 9:09 AM

I've put some effort to integrate it to my agentic workflow. The problem, however, with docker in smolvm: it work-ish (there is example), but quite hacky. Another problem which I wasnt able to solve - persistent image without Dockerfile. CloudInit will be ideal.

Documention at this moment in an early stage.

Overall, its a great project but for me was simpler just use Virtual Machine Manager (libvirt GUI).

I wish all luck to the maintainers, but probably DX-wise I will prefer to have more granular or predictable controls (eg micro cloud from Canonical).