Package Request: Kata Containers

[byrongibson]

Project description

Kata Containers is a project of the Open Infrastructure Foundation. It aims to build 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 defense.

It incorporates the Intel Clear Containers project, supports a range of hardware including x86_64, AMD64, ARM, IBM p-series, and IBM z-series. It supports multiple hypervisors including QEMU, Cloud-Hypervisor and Firecracker, and integrates with the containerd project among others.

It might be nice to have this as part of NixOS's virtualization options tree, eg virtualisation.kata.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://katacontainers.io/
• source URL: https://github.com/kata-containers
• license: Apache2
• platforms: linux

[milahu]

possible alternatives:

• ignite (nixpkgs) based on firecracker (nixpkgs)

related:

• kata-containers version 2 in Mic92/doctor-cluster-config#0c40be8
  • via https://discourse.nixos.org/t/firecracker-or-kata-on-nixos/11169/12
  • removed in 4fda448 on 2021-09-01
    • @Mic92 why? easier to use firecracker directly?
• kata-containers version 1 in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/93526
• firecracker in https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix via https://discourse.nixos.org/t/firecracker-or-kata-on-nixos/11169

[stale[bot]]

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