Written by Steve(Huailong) Zhang Kata Containers, which is a merger of two existing open source projects - Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV, is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the…

November & December have been busy months for Kata Containers. Following highly popular sessions at KubeCon North America 2022 led by rockstar Kata Herders Eric Ernst & Feng Wang, the community held elections for 3 open seats on the eve of Kata Containers’ 5th anniversary as a project. …

Greetings everyone, this is your friendly Kata community manager checking in to update you on what’s new with Kata Containers. If you’re here, then you’re probably already at least somewhat familiar with the container with its own kernel that blew our minds back in 2017. Original skepticism of a container…

AUSTIN, Texas, October 10, 2022 — Today, the open source project Kata Containers issued version 3.0.0 of the software. Kata Containers is a secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and perform like containers but provide stronger workload isolation using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of…

We got to talk with a Kata Containers community member, Li Xianzhuang from Inspur, and hear how his team got started with Kata Containers and how they are using it. What does Inspur do? Inspur is the world’s second largest server supplier. According to the 2022 Q1 Software-Defined Storage and…

OVHcloud and Ant Group have tied for top honors as co-winners of the 2022 Superuser Awards, which recognizes organizations that have used open infrastructure to improve their business while contributing back to the OpenInfra community. The news was announced today by the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation). Ant Group is…

We got to talk with a Kata Containers contributor, Matthieu Legré from Cysec, and hear how their team got started with Kata Containers and how they are using it. What does Cysec do? Cysec is a European startup commercializing a secure platform for containers. This platform, called ARCA Trusted OS…

Author: Nicolae Paladi, CEO and Co-founder of CanaryBit Confidential computing enables isolation of sensitive data in a secure domain during processing. It protects data in use by running the computation in a Trusted Execution Environment created using a combination of firmware and hardware features. While the approach started with process-based…

OpenInfra Summit Berlin is around the corner, and in less than a month, the Kata Containers community will join 30+ open source projects attending the Summit to collaborate in the open. The community will also share the latest upstream development, use cases and news in the Kata Containers project. Register…