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Related Hyperlight Projects

Each of the projects below leverage Hyperlight for isolation and provide support for language runtimes, POSIX microkernels, and much more.

Hyperlight Wasm

Section titled “Hyperlight Wasm”

Hyperlight Wasm is a project that enables Wasm modules to be run within the Hyperlight secure boundary using Wasmtime. Its purpose is to enable applications to run untrusted or third party Wasm code within the VM isolation boundary with very low latency and resource utilization.

Get Started with Hyperlight Wasm Hyperlight Wasm Docs

Hyperlight Nanvix

Section titled “Hyperlight Nanvix”

Hyperlight Nanvix is a project that runs the Nanvix microkernel inside the Hyperlight secure boundary. The Nanvix microkernel provides support for a broad set of POSIX APIs and support delegation of syscalls between the host and guest as well as syscall interposition (interception).

The broad POSIX compatability of Nanvix provides the ability to run JavaScript, Python, C, C++, and Rust programs. Similar to Hyperlight runtimes, Hyperlight Nanvix offers low latency cold starts in the 10 - 20 millisecond range for optimized workloads.

Get Started with Hyperlight Nanvix Hyperlight Nanvix Docs

Cargo Hyperlight

Section titled “Cargo Hyperlight”

Cargo Hyperlight is a cargo subcommand to help with building Hyperlight guest binaries.

Hyperlight’s extremely limited guest API can make it challenging to build guests targeting the environment. cargo-hyperlight was created to make it easier to build guest binaries. In fact, if your bin or any of its dependencies have a build.rs script using cc and bindgen to compile C code and generate bindings, they will often work without change!

Get Started with cargo-hyperlight cargo-hyperlight Docs

Hyperlight JavaScript

Section titled “Hyperlight JavaScript”

Hyperlight runtime for executing JavaScript within the Hyperlight secure boundary. It provides the ability to cold start JS applications in single digit milliseconds, perfect for the basis of a functions runtime. The runtime also provides the ability to register host functions which allow for extending functionality of the guest JavaScript code executing within the Hypervisor protected boundary.