CNCF Sandbox Hyperlight runs unmodified Linux in micro-VMs

Hyperlight, a CNCF Sandbox project, allows unmodified Linux binaries to run inside hypervisor-isolated micro-VMs using Unikraft unikernels. The library VMM embeds directly into applications, exposing host capabilities via a strict allow-list and enabling fast execution by snapshotting initialized runtimes. Integrations with tools like containerd, Kubernetes, and various agent frameworks let developers securely execute untrusted or AI-generated code with millisecond-level startup times. Open article →