feat: initial Firecracker snapshot orchestrator (fc-orch)

A "poor man's" Firecracker VM orchestrator that boots a single golden VM,
snapshots it, then restores N clone VMs from that snapshot with minimal
per-clone overhead.

How it works:
- `init`   — downloads a Linux 6.1 kernel and builds a minimal Alpine 3.20
             rootfs (512 MiB ext4) with a basic init script
- `golden` — boots the golden VM, lets it settle, then pauses and snapshots
             it (vmstate + memory file); the golden VMM is then terminated
             since only the artifacts are needed
- `spawn N` — restores N clone VMs concurrently from the golden snapshot:
               * rootfs: filesystem-level COW copy via `cp --reflink` (falls
                 back to a plain copy if reflinks are not supported)
               * memory: shared golden `mem` file; Firecracker's MAP_PRIVATE
                 lets the kernel handle COW page-by-page at no up-front cost
               * vmstate: small file, cheap regular copy per clone
               * networking: per-clone TAP device (fctapN) bridged to fcbr0
                 with iptables MASQUERADE NAT on the default route interface
- `status`  — reads PID files and checks /proc to report alive/dead clones
- `kill`    — stops in-memory clones, kills any stragglers via PID files,
              and tears down all fctap* devices
- `cleanup` — kill + remove all state dirs and the bridge

All tunables (binary path, base dir, kernel/rootfs paths, vCPUs, memory,
bridge name/CIDR) are configurable via environment variables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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module github.com/you/fc-orchestrator
go 1.23
require (
github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-go-sdk v1.0.0
github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3
)
require (
github.com/PuerkitoBio/purell v1.1.1 // indirect
github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc v0.0.0-20170810143723-de5bf2ad4578 // indirect
github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20210307081110-f21760c49a8d // indirect
github.com/containerd/fifo v1.0.0 // indirect
github.com/containernetworking/cni v1.0.1 // indirect
github.com/containernetworking/plugins v1.0.1 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/analysis v0.21.2 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/errors v0.20.2 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/jsonpointer v0.19.5 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/jsonreference v0.19.6 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/loads v0.21.1 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/runtime v0.24.0 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/spec v0.20.4 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/strfmt v0.21.2 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/swag v0.21.1 // indirect
github.com/go-openapi/validate v0.22.0 // indirect
github.com/go-stack/stack v1.8.1 // indirect
github.com/google/uuid v1.3.0 // indirect
github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0 // indirect
github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.1.1 // indirect
github.com/josharian/intern v1.0.0 // indirect
github.com/mailru/easyjson v0.7.7 // indirect
github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure v1.4.3 // indirect
github.com/oklog/ulid v1.3.1 // indirect
github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go v1.2.0 // indirect
github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
github.com/vishvananda/netlink v1.1.1-0.20210330154013-f5de75959ad5 // indirect
github.com/vishvananda/netns v0.0.0-20210104183010-2eb08e3e575f // indirect
go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver v1.8.3 // indirect
golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20220127200216-cd36cc0744dd // indirect
golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220715151400-c0bba94af5f8 // indirect
golang.org/x/text v0.3.7 // indirect
gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0 // indirect
)