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Deno Under TinyKVM in Varnish

by perbu on 4/11/25, 5:37 AM with 28 comments

  • by ksimukka on 4/11/25, 8:47 AM

    “inline CSS wizardry by my friend Kyle”

    Thank you for the kind words my friend. I enjoyed contributing to TinyKVM during my time at Varnish Software. It is nice to see that you are able to present and share it with the community.

  • by mmastrac on 4/11/25, 1:21 PM

    These posts from Varnish initially confused me because the only Varnish project I had heard of was a cache/accelerator like nginx.

    TinyKVM is an impressive marvel and I wonder if it would help to separate the branding from the older name.

  • by codethief on 4/11/25, 2:47 PM

    In case anyone from Varnish is around, possibly even the author himself: Last time we discussed TinyKVM here, I wanted to know[0] whether it could possibly be used as an OCI container runtime and what capabilities it would need? Background: I would like to use it as a runtime in order to allow for nesting containers in my CI pipelines, which is difficult with standard OCI runtimes like runc/crun without granting them privileges or at least additional capabilities that AppArmor is not happy about. Anyway, I'd still be very much interested in an answer! :)

    [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364218

  • by CoolCold on 4/11/25, 11:16 AM

    Nowadays I almost have zero intersection with Varnish - my own impression it was much more popular like 10 years ago or even more.

    I know couple of frameworks/systems support it, especially in php world.

    Looks like that it's lost in layers - dev guys don't care much, sysadmins are sort of extincted, noone to bother to add Varnish into request processing queue. Needless to say, people ok HN even complain on Nginx configs,while for base caching it's much simpler, from my perspective.

  • by Imustaskforhelp on 4/11/25, 10:21 AM

    Great post as usual!

    Tinykvm is going to be the future

  • by d0100 on 4/11/25, 10:30 AM

    I am looking for a Deno sandbox and this seems like a good idea.

    Is there code available anywhere of this implementation?

  • by perbu on 4/11/25, 5:37 AM

    TinyKVM is now integrated into Varnish Cache Deno has been ported to run inside it.

  • by johnbellone on 4/11/25, 1:45 PM

    This is pretty damn sweet.