Kata Containers – Open Supply Container Runtime Software program
About Kata Containers
Kata Containers is an open supply group working to construct a safe container runtime with light-weight digital machines that really feel and carry out like containers, however present stronger workload isolation utilizing {hardware} virtualization know-how as a second layer of protection.
Since launching in December 2017, the group efficiently merged the perfect components of Intel Clear Containers with Hyper.sh RunV and scaled to incorporate assist for main architectures together with AMD64, ARM, IBM p-series and IBM z-series along with x86_64. Kata Containers additionally helps a number of hypervisors together with QEMU, Cloud-Hypervisor and Firecracker and integrates with the containerd mission amongst others.
The Kata Containers group is stewarded by the Open Infrastructure Basis, which helps the event and adoption of open infrastructure globally. The code is hosted at GitHub beneath the Apache 2 license.