Chapter Summary

In this chapter, you containerized a Wasm app and ran it in a Wasm container.

• Wasm is a new technology driving the next wave of cloud computing. Wasm apps are smaller, faster, more secure, and more portable than traditional Linux containers. However, they’re not as flexible. For example, at the time of writing, Wasm apps aren’t great for apps with heavy I/O requirements or complex networking. This will change quickly as the Wasm ecosystem is evolving fast.