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Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs.
Overview
Kata Containers is a novel implementation of a lightweight virtual machine that seamlessly integrates within the container ecosystem. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers, while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers is a merger of two existing open source projects: Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV. The new project brings together the best of both technologies with a common vision of retooling virtualization to fit container-native applications, in order to deliver the speed of containers, and the security of VMs. Kata Containers benefits from each project’s strengths. Intel Clear Containers are focused on performance (<100ms boot time) and enhanced security, while Hyper runV prioritized being technology-agnostic by supporting many different CPU architectures and hypervisors. By merging the projects, Kata Containers delivers a superior end user experience in both performance and compatibility, unifies the developer communities, and accelerates feature development to tackle future use cases.
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