Show HN: Volant– spin up real microVMs in 10 seconds(Docker images or initramfs) (opens in new tab)

I’ve been building Volant, a modular microVM orchestration engine that makes running microVMs feel as simple as Docker.

It supports cloud-init, GPU/VFIO passthrough (yes, you can run AI/ML workloads in isolated microVMs), booting Docker images via a plugin system, and Kubernetes-style deployments with replication, all from a single CLI(soon to be web UI, see next)

Coming soon: a built-in PaaS mode with snapshot-based cold start elimination, sort of like Dokploy, but designed for serverless workloads that boot from memory snapshots instead of containers.

Volant is intentionally a bit opinionated to make microVMs more accessible, but it’s fully extensible for power users.

Check out the README and the docs for more details.

It’s free and open source (under BSL), would love to hear feedback or thoughts from anyone!

tl;dr: 6-second GIF in the README shows the full flow: install → create VM → get HTTP 200.