Welcome to our latest update on Kata Containers! We’re excited to share our progress, recent milestones, and what’s coming up next. This post covers the key achievements from the past month and gives…

The Kata Containers community participated in the recent online PTG event in October, 2024. The community had sessions booked on 3 days during the event to discuss topics including release planning…

The Architecture Committee (AC) is a leadership body that oversees the architectural direction of the Kata Containers project and is also responsible for ensuring that the community is open, welcoming…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) turned from news headline to reality almost overnight, and started to provide enhanced automation to both individuals as well as businesses, and with that increase…

The Kata Containers community has been making improvements to the project’s release process to be able deliver new versions more frequently, aiming for a monthly minor release cadence. The latest 3.…

The Kata Containers community participated in the recent online PTG event in April, 2024. The community had one 5-hour session booked during the event to discuss topics including release process and…

by James O. D. Hunt, Senior software engineer at Intel R&D Labs. Kata Containers developer. Overview This article gives a brief overview of Kata Containers including details of how it is configured…

Kata Containers is a secure container runtime that provides strong enterprise-ready isolation based on hardware virtualization technology. It combines the advantages of strong isolation of virtual…

Flexibility without Compromise By Pradipta Banerjee As more organizations adopt Kubernetes, security has become a major concern. Kubernetes has many built-in security features, but ensuring security…

By Mathis Joffre In this tutorial, we will deploy a microVM on top of Kubernetes. We will use the Kata Containers runtime to run the microVM. The microVM will be deployed as a pod in Kubernetes. If…

By Kevin Copal, CEO at KeepSec Technologies In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, security has become a paramount concern for organizations handling sensitive data. OpenStack, an open-source cloud…

Contributed by Tao Peng | Staff Engineer, Ant Group On Jun 13, 2023, during the Openinfra Summit Vancouver keynote, Xu Wang and Tao Peng, two engineers from Ant Group, co-presented a session on…

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…

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…

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…

Written by James Hunt, Chelsea Mafrica Overview This article will show you how to use Kata Containers tracing to see where time is being spent running your workload. After describing briefly what Kata…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

OVHcloud, Ant Group Win Superuser Awards for Large-Scale Deployment of OpenStack, Innovative Use of Kata Containers to Reduce Carbon Emissions, Respectively OVHcloud and Ant Group have tied for top…

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…

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…

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…

Northflank enables developers to deploy, scale, monitor, and backup services in minutes with the ease of use of Heroku and the pricing and comprehensiveness of AWS. Northflank’s comprehensive PaaS can…

Kata Containers continues to deliver the speed of containers with the security of virtual machines. Kata Containers became a pilot project in December 2017, in conjunction with the Open Infrastructure…

Exotanium, Inc. is a cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses cutting-edge distributed container infrastructure as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML…

The Kata Containers User Survey opened in April 2020 and has recently undergone an update by the Architecture Committee. Since April 2020, 26 organizations have completed the survey, spanning…

On October 19, the Kata Containers community got together at the virtual PTG and had quite a few interesting discussions. The vPTG time slots overlapped with Kata’s weekly architecture meeting. So the…

The Architecture Committee (AC) is composed of five members, who are elected by contributors. The AC elections take place every six months, in February (two seats available) and in September (three…

Teams from IBM Cloud have been involved in the Kata Containers community for a while. They recently participated in an OpenInfra Live episode where community members from IBM and AMD talked about how…

Nubificus Ltd is a software consultancy tackling complex virtualization problems. It targets ultra-fast application spawning and execution at the edge and in the cloud. Teams at Nubificus are day-to…

For people who are not familiar with Project Teams Gathering (PTG), it is an event organized by the Open Infrastructure Foundation. PTG provides meeting facilities allowing various technical community…

Kata Containers seamlessly delivers the speed of containers with the security of virtual machines. Kata Containers became a pilot project in December 2017, in conjunction with the Open Infrastructure…

Kata Containers 2.0 delivers significant improvements in observability and manageability for building secure container infrastructure. On Monday, October 19, the Kata Containers community has issued…

Welcome our new and returning Architecture Committee members! The Architecture Committee (AC) is composed of five members, who are elected by contributors. The AC elections take place every six…

Want to learn more about the internals of Kata but don’t know where to start? Are you keen to contribute to Kata? Can you code in golang or rust? If you answer yes to those questions, read on…

Kata Containers Architecture Committee elections for September 2019 are now… OPEN!! The Architecture Committee (AC) is comprised of 5 members, who are elected by contributors. The AC elections take…

April 26, 2019. This update is authored by Kata community member, Graham Whaley. # Overview Some of the world were on holiday early in the week, but plenty of stuff still happened in the world of Kata…

April 18, 2019. This update is authored by Kata community member, James Hunt. # Intro The Rota Team [1] are going to start summarising what’s been happening weekly, so folk can get a regular update on…

More than 30 members of the Kata Containers community are speaking at several upcoming events, including Container World, the Open Infrastructure Summit, AWS Summit, China Open Source Hackathon and…

Today marks a major milestone for the Kata Containers project! The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) Board of Directors voted and approved Kata Containers as the first new top-level Open Infrastructure…

Kata Containers featured at Open Infrastructure Summit Denver, April 2019 Kata Containers is going big with a significant presence planned at the upcoming Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver, April…