Kata Containers Project Update - November, 2024
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…
Welcome Kata Containers’ new and returning Architecture Committee members!
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…
Kata Containers - Revolutionizing AI Workloads
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…
Kata Containers 3.5.0 and Further Release Updates
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.…
Kata Containers 3.2.0-RC0 Official Release Announcement
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…
OpenStack with Kata Containers and Falco: Building a Highly Secure Setup
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…
Kata Containers 3.0.0 Arrives: Faster, More Secure, Support for New Environments
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…
Kata Containers — Inspur Case Study
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, 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…
Kata Containers — Cysec Case Study
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…
Meet the Kata Containers community in Berlin, June 7–9, 2022
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…
Kata Containers — Northflank Case Study
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 — Exotanium Case Study
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…
Kata Containers User Survey Report
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…
Kata Containers vPTG: Community Gathering, New Features, and A Glimpse of Kata 3.0
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…
Welcome our 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 months, in February (two seats available) and in September (three…
Kata Containers — IBM Cloud Case Study
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…
Kata Containers - Nubificus Case Study
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…
Kata Containers Project Teams Gathering Recap
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 Version 2.0 Ships with Rust Agent for Improved Security, Performance With 10x Footprint Reduction
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…
Congratulations to the newly elected Kata Architecture Committee!
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…
Up for a challenge? Unit testing y’all!
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 September Elections
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…
Kata Containers Community Hits the Road to Spread the Word
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…
Kata Containers Confirmed as First New Top-Level Open Infrastructure Project by OpenStack Foundation
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 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…