The Ocre community at #LFEdge continues to push boundaries—Atym’s runtime footprint is now just 128KB, enabling lightweight containerization for resource-constrained edge devices!
We’re excited to announce that the Atym runtime footprint is now just 128KB! That’s 2000X lighter than the typical footprint of #Docker with #Linux, while providing similar OCI-type containerization benefits and fitting into existing CI/CD workflows. This is in large part thanks to the great work by the Ocre community within LF Edge. Based on #WebAssembly and The Zephyr Project, Ocre powers our device runtime that works together with our Enterprise-grade orchestration hub. Previously, we’ve been advertising a 256KB footprint for the Atym runtime and a minimum memory requirement of 1MB in order to have room for containerized apps above. However, with ongoing optimizations, Atym can now support basic containerized apps on devices that have as little as 256KB of total available memory. Meanwhile, our containerization technology scales up to hardware of any capability - the sky (e.g. cloud) is literally the limit! But practically, our sweet spot is MCU, MPU and CPU-based edge nodes with 256KB to 2GB of memory. Drop us a line to learn more, or dive into the collaboration in the Ocre community! Jason Shepherd Stephen Berard Brian Smith Darrin Pelletier Knox Lively Daniel Kouba
