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Kata Containers Project Releases 1.0 to Build Secure Container Infrastructure
Today, the open source project Kata Containers™ issued version 1.0 of
the software. Kata Containers provides a way of isolating containerized
workloads with security comparable to virtual machines (VMs) without the
performance burden of full VMs. This solution offers a fast and secure
deployment option for anything from highly-regulated workloads to
untrusted code, spanning public/private cloud, containers-as-a-service
and edge computing use cases.
Kata Containers 1.0 delivers the fully integrated code bases of the two
technologies contributed to form the foundation of the project: Intel (News - Alert)®
Clear Containers from Intel Corporation and runV technology from
Hyper.sh. By combining two of the leading virtualized container open
source code bases, Kata Containers is well-positioned to solve the
challenge of providing secure, light, fast and agile container
management technology across stacks and platforms.
Launched in December of 2017 as a project managed by the OpenStack
Foundation, Kata Containers is designed to be hardware agnostic. The
software is compatible with the Open Container Initiative (OCI)
specification and the container runtime interface (CRI (News - Alert)) for Kubernetes.
Kata Containers 1.0 supports mixed workloads, and the community is
looking to expand support for device passthrough and accelerators in
releases beyond 1.0.
***Download
Kata Containers 1.0 here***
Kata Containers 1.0 is ready for production workloads. Both Intel and
Hyper.sh encourage current Clear Containers and runV users to transition
to Kata Containers 1.0 for the most up-to-date version of the respective
technologies and assurances of maintenance and innovative enhancements
going forward. Installation and developer guides can be found here.
Kata Containers Community Expands
Following the initial code contributions from Intel and Hyper.sh, Arm,
Canonical, Dell (News - Alert)/EMC, Intel and Red Hat have announced financial support
for the project and the following companies are supporting the project:
99cloud, AWcloud, China Mobile, City Network, CoreOS, EasyStack,
Fiberhome, Google, Huawei (News - Alert), JD.com, Mirantis, NetApp, SUSE, Tencent,
Ucloud and UnitedStack.
The Kata Containers community has been growing since its launch in
December 2017, and open source contributors passionate about container
security are invited to get involved. Contributors can expect to work
upstream across multiple infrastructure and container orchestration
communities, including Kubernetes, Docker, OCI, CRI, CNI, QEMU, KVM and
OpenStack. Get started by connecting with the Kata Containers community.
Connect With the Kata Containers Community
Meet the Kata Containers Team at OpenStack Summit This Week
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Containers Infrastructure Keynote, featuring "Meet
Kata Containers 1.0.0," Tuesday, 1:50-3:20 pm
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Kata
Containers - Project Update, Tuesday, 3:30-4:10 pm
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A
1.0 celebration toast and a thank you to 1.0 contributors, Tuesday,
4:10-4:40 pm
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Workshop: "Intro
to Kata Containers components: A hands-on lab," Tuesday, 4:40-6:10
pm
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Kata
Containers development work - share feature requests for the next
release - Thursday, 9 am-6 pm
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Kata
Containers - Project Onboarding, Thursday, 4:40-5:10 pm
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More Kata
Containers sessions, including a session from Alibaba on the Pouch
project, which plans to transition to Kata Containers
Save the Date: OpenStack
Summit Berlin, November 13-15, 2018
About Kata Containers
Kata Containers is an open source project that delivers the speed and
performance of containers with the security of virtual machines. It is
designed to be architecture agnostic and is compatible with OCI images
as well as the container runtime interface (CRI) for Kubernetes.
Kata Containers is hosted on Github under the Apache 2 license and
managed by the OpenStack Foundation. Get involved at www.katacontainers.io.
About the OpenStack® Foundation
The OpenStack
Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open
infrastructure globally, across a community of 90,000 individuals in 187
countries by hosting open source projects and communities of practice,
including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container
infrastructure.
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