Bastion
isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents
Details
- External ID
- 48523664
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Bastion
- Website domain
- bastion.computer
- Launched
- June 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 32
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7971311475409836
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- coding agent interfaces and environments
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- isolated vms for ai coding agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Providing fast, isolated Linux VMs for background coding agents requires custom hypervisor/microVM infrastructure and high-density virtualization orchestration.
What it would actually take: The infrastructure needs to orchestrate microVMs using Firecracker or QEMU/KVM running on bare-metal servers, paired with custom containerd/snapshotter backends for sub-second VM boots. The critical challenges include multi-tenant kernel isolation, ephemeral copy-on-write root filesystem branching, low-latency agent RPC/TTY streaming, and strict network sandboxing. This requires deep systems infrastructure, Linux kernel virtualization, and distributed systems engineering.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Name conflicts with 'Bastion host' terminology
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 2025 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #405 of 2026 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
- Clawk · hn · 2026-07-13 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- A tool to manage a swarm of coding agents on Linux · hn · 2026-04-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Hyve · hn · 2026-01-21 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Replicas - End-to-End Background Coding Agents · yc · 2026-04-01 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Lula · hn · 2026-03-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Lore · hn · 2026-06-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Real-time observability for coding agents · hn · 2026-03-17 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Git-lanes · hn · 2026-03-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.