We’re almost at the halfway point of 2023, & it’s already been a great year for Kata Containers filled with many exciting milestones. Spring 2023 officially marked the expansion of the Architecture Committee from 5 to 7 chairs to better accommodate the rapid growth of the community, during which time…

Written by Amar Gowda | Microsoft Announcement Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) leveraging Kata confidential containers open-source project are coming soon to Azure. If you would like to be part of the preview, please express your interest here https://aka.ms/cocoakspreview Zero Trust with Confidential containers Zero trust cloud architecture is a security framework that focuses…

Greetings fellow Kata Herders! March has been an exciting month for Kata Containers, leading us into an even more exciting summer. In addition to a number of events coming up where Kata will have a presence, our favorite container with a kernel has been making big news — literally. Read…

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. Read more…

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…