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Development activities in Kata Containers

Kata Containers is Apache 2 licensed software consisting of two main components: the Kata agent, and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. It also packages a Linux kernel and versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker hypervisors.

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Architecture

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Kata Containers Integration with Kubernetes:

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Integration Points

Hypervisor:

FirecrackerQEMUCloud Hypervisor

Architecture support:

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Hardware support:

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Requirements

Kata requires nested virtualization or bare metal. The Kata Containers runtime has a built-in command (kata-check) to determine if your host system is capable of running a Kata Container. Learn how to use kata-check.

Distributions

Kata Containers is available on many distributions. View the [distro specific install guides](https://github.com/kata-containers/documentation/tree/master/install) for:
  • CentOS
  • Debian
  • Fedora
  • OpenSuse
  • RHEL
  • SLES
  • Ubuntu

Cloud Service Platform

Run Kata Containers on a cloud service platform:
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Compute Engine
Vexxhost OpenStack Cloud