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Virtual machines,
started like containers.

Dicer boots any OCI image as a virtual machine with a kernel of its own, under Cloud Hypervisor or Firecracker. One daemon, one command, on your own Linux host.

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$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/konradasb/dicer/main/scripts/install.sh | bash 
$ sudo dicer run --name web -p 8080:80 nginx:1.27
Image docker.io/library/nginx:1.27 pulled in 7.9s (108.8 MiB)
Instance web started in 380ms (172.20.151.177)
$ sudo dicer ps -c name,status,ports
NAME  STATUS        PORTS
web   Up 2 seconds  8080->80/tcp
$ sudo dicer exec web nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.27.5
$ curl -sI http://dicer1.example.com:8080 | head -1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK