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# Confidential Containers

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## Welcome to confidential-containers

Confidential Containers is an open source community working to leverage 
[Trusted Execution Environments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_execution_environment) 
to protect containers and data and to deliver cloud native 
confidential computing.

**We have a new release every 6 weeks!**
See [Release Notes](./releases/) or [Quickstart Guide](./quickstart.md)

Our key considerations are:
- Allow cloud native application owners to enforce application security requirements
- Transparent deployment of unmodified containers
- Support for multiple TEE and hardware platforms
- A trust model which separates Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) from guest applications
- Least privilege principles for the Kubernetes cluster administration capabilities which impact 
delivering Confidential Computing for guest applications or data inside the TEE

### Get started quickly... 
- [Confidential Containers Helm Charts](https://github.com/confidential-containers/charts) : Helm
  charts to deploy confidential containers runtime (and required configs) on a Kubernetes cluster


## Further Detail
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- [Project Overview](./overview.md)
- [Project Architecture](./architecture.md)
- [Our Roadmap](./roadmap.md)
- [Our Release Content Planning](https://github.com/orgs/confidential-containers/projects/6)
- [Alignment with other Projects](alignment.md)

## Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! Please see our [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/confidential-containers/confidential-containers/?tab=contributing-ov-file#readme) for details on how to get started.

## License
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