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cloud-hypervisor
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Using Kata Containers as a Container Runtime in OpenStack Zun
You can follow this post or official document of Kata Containers here for any details.
- Kata Containers: Lightweight VMs for Containers
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Comparing 3 Docker container runtimes - Runc, gVisor and Kata Containers
I bet the first thing you think that it is a bug. There is an issue on GitHub where someone thought the same. The fact is that Kata containers are different and there are Limitations. The first I noticed too, that there is no way to share process or network namespaces between Docker containers. The fact that you cannot use the process namespace or network namespace of the host is easily understandable because we have a VM and not just a host kernel isolating our processes.
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
> I actually wonder how much "overhead" a VM actually has. i.e. a linux kernel that doesn't do anything (say perhaps just boots to an init that mounts proc and every n seconds read in/prints out /proc/meminfo) how much memory would the kernel actually be using?
There's already some memory sharing available using DAX in Kata Containers at least: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
- My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container
- Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
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Fly Kubernetes
Seems like Fly.io Machines are trying reimplement Kata Containers with the Firecracker backend [0].
Kata has a guest image and guest agent to run multiple isolated containers [1].
[0] https://katacontainers.io/
[1] https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
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Kata Containers: Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers
> Last time I looked (a few months ago), the documentation was pretty sparse or outdated.
It still is, though it works somewhat seamlessly when installing with https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/blob/main...
Though only one of the hypervisors works well.
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Method to block possible internet traffic from LLaMA on MacOS
Better to use a secure VM, can even get container-like VMs with kata-containers
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Kata Containers vs gVisor?
As I understand,Kata Containers
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kata-containers/kata-containers is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of kata-containers is Rust.
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