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Added

• Created a CI pipeline that runs CRI integration tests inside containers using kind.
• [Beta] Added a developer image that runs a vHive k8s cluster in Docker, simplifying vHive development and debugging. Currently, only single-node clusters are supported.
• Extended the developers guide on the modes of operation, performance analysis and vhive development environment inside containers.
• Added a slide deck of Dmitrii's talk at Amazon.
• Added a commit linter and a spell checker for *.md files.

Changed

• Use replace pragmas instead of Go modules.
• Bump Go version to 1.15 in CI.
• Deprecated Travis CI.

Fixed

• Fixed the vHive cluster setup issue for clusters with >2 nodes issue.

The first release of the vHive open-source framework for serverless experimentation.

Features:

• Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) programming model with Knative

• Cluster infrastructure support with Kubernetes integration

• Firecracker MicroVM hypervisor support

• MicroVM snapshotting: both vanilla Firecracker snapshots and advanced REcord-And-Prefetch (REAP) snapshots that we describe in our ASPLOS'21 paper (extended abstract, full paper).

See the paper for details.