Introduce a new function to install additional packages into the
devkit flavor. With modprobe, we avoid errors on pod startup
related to loading nvidia kernel modules in the NVRC phase.
Note, the production flavor gets modprobe from busybox, see its
configuration file containing CONFIG_MODPROBE=y.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
Remove the initramfs folder, its build steps, and use the kernel
based dm-verity enforcement for the handlers which used the
initramfs mode. Also, remove the initramfs verity mode
capability from the shims and their configs.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
Measured rootfs mode and CDH secure storage feature require the
cryptsetup-bin and e2fsprogs components in the guest.
This change makes this more explicity - confidential guests are
users of the CDH secure container image layer storage feature.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
This change introduces the kernelinit dm-verity mode, allowing
initramfs-less dm-verity enforcement against the rootfs image.
For this, the change introduces a new variable with dm-verity
information. This variable will be picked up by shim
configurations in subsequent commits.
This will allow the shims to build the kernel command line
with dm-verity information based on the existing
kernel_parameters configuration knob and a new
kernel_verity_params configuration knob. The latter
specifically provides the relevant dm-verity information.
This new configuration knob avoids merging the verity
parameters into the kernel_params field. Avoiding this, no
cumbersome escape logic is required as we do not need to pass the
dm-mod.create="..." parameter directly in the kernel_parameters,
but only relevant dm-verity parameters in semi-structured manner
(see above). The only place where the final command line is
assembled is in the shims. Further, this is a line easy to comment
out for developers to disable dm-verity enforcement (or for CI
tasks).
This change produces the new kernelinit dm-verity parameters for
the NVIDIA runtime handlers, and modifies the format of how
these parameters are prepared for all handlers. With this, the
parameters are currently no longer provided to the
kernel_params configuration knob for any runtime handler.
This change alone should thus not be used as dm-verity
information will no longer be picked up by the shims.
systemd-analyze on the coco-dev handler shows that using the
kernelinit mode on a local machine, less time is spent in the
kernel phase, slightly speeding up pod start-up. On that machine,
the average of 172.5ms was reduced to 141ms (4 measurements, each
with a basic pod manifest), i.e., the kernel phase duration is
improved by about 18 percent.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
This reverts commit 923f97bc66 in
order to re-instantiate the logic from commit
e4a13b9a4a.
The latter commit was previously reverted due to the NVIDIA GPU TEE
handler using an initrd, not an image.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
We cannot overwrtie a binary that's currently in use, and that's the
reason that elsewhere we remove / unlink the binary (the running process
keeps its file descriptor, so we're good doing that) and only then we
copy the binary. However, we missed doing this for the
nydus-snapshotter deployment.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Clean up existing nydus-snapshotter state to ensure fresh start with new
version.
This is safe across all K8s distributions (k3s, rke2, k0s, microk8s,
etc.) because we only touch the nydus data directory, not containerd's
internals.
When containerd tries to use non-existent snapshots, it will
re-pull/re-unpack.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
As we have moved to use QEMU (and OVMF already earlier) from
kata-deploy, the custom tdx configurations and distro checks
are no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@intel.com>
This Allows the updateStrategy to be configured for the kata-deploy helm
chart, this is enabling administrators to control the aggressiveness of
updates. For a less aggressive approach, the strategy can be set to
`OnDelete`. Alternatively, the update process can be made more
aggressive by adjusting the `maxUnavailable` parameter.
Signed-off-by: Nikolaj Lindberg Lerche <nlle@ambu.com>
Delete the pause_bundle directory before running the umoci unpack
operation. This will make builds idempotent and not fail with
errors like "create runtime bundle: config.json already exists in
.../build/pause-image/destdir/pause_bundle". This will make life
better when building locally.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
Update Go from 1.24.11 to 1.24.12 to address security vulnerabilities
in the standard library:
- GO-2026-4342: Excessive CPU consumption in archive/zip
- GO-2026-4341: Memory exhaustion in net/url query parsing
- GO-2026-4340: TLS handshake encryption level issue in crypto/tls
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Remove the initrd function and add the image function to align
with the actually existing functions in this file.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Huber <manuelh@nvidia.com>
We want to enable local and remote CUDA repository builds.
Moving the cuda and tools repo to versions.yaml with a
unified build for both types.
Signed-off-by: Zvonko Kaiser <zkaiser@nvidia.com>
Update the Helm chart README to document the new shims.disableAll
option and simplify the examples that previously required listing
every shim to disable.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Simplify the example values files by using the new shims.disableAll
option instead of listing every shim to disable.
Before (try-kata-nvidia-gpu.values.yaml):
shims:
clh:
enabled: false
cloud-hypervisor:
enabled: false
# ... 15 more lines ...
After:
shims:
disableAll: true
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add a new `shims.disableAll` option that disables all standard shims
at once. This is useful when:
- Enabling only specific shims without listing every other shim
- Using custom runtimes only mode (no standard Kata shims)
Usage:
shims:
disableAll: true
qemu:
enabled: true # Only qemu is enabled
All helper templates are updated to check for this flag before
iterating over shims.
One thing that's super important to note here is that helm recursively
merges user values with chart defaults, making a simple
`disableAll` flag problematic: if defaults have `enabled: true`, user's
`disableAll: true` gets merged with those defaults, resulting in all
shims still being enabled.
The workaround found is to use null (`~`) as the default for `enabled`
field. The template logic interprets null differently based on
disableAll:
| enabled value | disableAll: false | disableAll: true |
|---------------|-------------------|------------------|
| ~ (null) | Enabled | Disabled |
| true | Enabled | Enabled |
| false | Disabled | Disabled |
This is backward compatible:
- Default behavior unchanged: all shims enabled when disableAll: false
- Users can set `disableAll: true` to disable all, then explicitly
enable specific shims with `enabled: true`
- Explicit `enabled: false` always disables, regardless of disableAll
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add functions to install and remove custom runtime configuration files.
Each custom runtime gets an isolated directory structure:
custom-runtimes/{handler}/
configuration-{baseConfig}.toml # Copied from base config
config.d/
50-overrides.toml # User's drop-in overrides
The base config is copied AFTER kata-deploy has applied its modifications
(debug settings, proxy configuration, annotations), so custom runtimes
inherit these settings.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add functions to configure custom runtimes in containerd and CRI-O.
Custom runtimes use an isolated config directory under:
custom-runtimes/{handler}/
Custom runtimes automatically derive the shim binary path from the
baseConfig field using the existing is_rust_shim() logic.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add support for parsing custom runtime configurations from a mounted
ConfigMap. This allows users to define their own RuntimeClasses with
custom Kata configurations.
The ConfigMap format uses a custom-runtimes.list file with entries:
handler:baseConfig:containerd_snapshotter:crio_pulltype
Drop-in files are read from dropin-{handler}.toml, if present.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Let's extract the common logic from configure_containerd_runtime and
configure_crio_runtime into reusable helper functions. This reduces
code duplication and prepares for adding custom runtime support.
For containerd:
- Add ContainerdRuntimeParams struct to encapsulate common parameters
- Add get_containerd_pluginid() to extract version detection logic
- Add get_containerd_output_path() to extract file path resolution
- Add write_containerd_runtime_config() to write common TOML values
For CRI-O:
- Add CrioRuntimeParams struct to encapsulate common parameters
- Add write_crio_runtime_config() to write common configuration
While here, let's also simplify pod_annotations to always use
"[\"io.katacontainers.*\"]" for all runtimes, as the NVIDIA specific
case has been removed from the shell script, but we forgot to do so
here.
No functional changes intended.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add the necessary configuration and code changes to support QEMU
on arm64 architecture in runtime-rs.
Changes:
- Set MACHINETYPE to "virt" for arm64
- Add machine accelerators "usb=off,gic-version=host" required for
proper arm64 virtualization
- Add arm64-specific kernel parameter "iommu.passthrough=0"
- Guard vIOMMU (Intel IOMMU) to skip on arm64 since it's not supported
These changes align runtime-rs with the Go runtime's arm64 QEMU support.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Zhao <kevin.zhao@linaro.org>
The verification job mounts a ConfigMap containing the pod spec for
the Kata runtime test. Previously, both the ConfigMap and the Job were
Helm hooks with different weights (-5 and 0 respectively).
On k3s, a race condition was observed where the Job pod would be
scheduled before the kubelet's informer cache had registered the
ConfigMap, causing a FailedMount error:
MountVolume.SetUp failed for volume "pod-spec": object
"kube-system"/"kata-deploy-verification-spec" not registered
This happened because k3s's lightweight architecture schedules pods
very quickly, and the hook weight difference only controls Helm's
ordering, not actual timing between resource creation and cache sync.
By making the ConfigMap a regular chart resource (removing hook
annotations), it is created during the main chart installation phase,
well before any post-install hooks run. This guarantees the ConfigMap
is fully propagated to all kubelets before the verification Job starts.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
The verification job needs to list nodes to check for the
katacontainers.io/kata-runtime label and list events to detect
FailedCreatePodSandBox errors during pod creation.
This was discovered when testing with k0s, where the service account
lacked the required cluster-scope permissions to list nodes.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Remove k0s-worker and k0s-controller from
RUNTIMES_WITHOUT_CONTAINERD_DROP_IN_SUPPORT and always return true for
k0s in is_containerd_capable_of_using_drop_in_files since k0s auto-loads
from containerd.d/ directory regardless of containerd version.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add microk8s case to get_containerd_paths() method and remove microk8s
from RUNTIMES_WITHOUT_CONTAINERD_DROP_IN_SUPPORT to enable dynamic
containerd version checking.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Introduce ContainerdPaths struct and get_containerd_paths() method to
centralize the complex logic for determining containerd configuration
file paths across different Kubernetes distributions.
The new ContainerdPaths struct includes:
- config_file: File to read containerd version from and write to
- backup_file: Backup file path before modification
- imports_file: File to add/remove drop-in imports from (Option<String>)
- drop_in_file: Path to the drop-in configuration file
- use_drop_in: Whether drop-in files can be used
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
The JSONPath parser was incorrectly splitting on escaped dots (\.)
causing microk8s detection to fail. Labels like "microk8s.io/cluster"
were being split into ["microk8s\", "io/cluster"] instead of being
treated as a single key.
This adds a split_jsonpath() helper that properly handles escaped dots,
allowing the automatic microk8s detection via the node label to work
correctly.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
The verification job now supports configurable timeouts to accommodate
different environments and network conditions. The daemonset timeout
defaults to 1200 seconds (20 minutes) to allow for large image downloads,
while the verification pod timeout defaults to 180 seconds.
The job now waits for the DaemonSet to exist, pods to be scheduled,
rollout to complete, and nodes to be labeled before creating the
verification pod. A 15-second delay is added after node labeling to
allow kubelet time to refresh runtime information.
Retry logic with 3 attempts and a 10-second delay handles transient
FailedCreatePodSandBox errors that can occur during runtime
initialization. The job only fails on pod errors after a 30-second
grace period to avoid false positives from timing issues.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
The runk tool hasn't been supported for a few years, with no maintainers
since ManaSugi stopped being involved in the project and the CI was
disabled in 2024.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
This reverts commit 6130d7330f, as we're
officially swithcing to the rust version of kata-deploy.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
a2534e7bc8 introduced the logic to also
release a kata-tools tarball, but it missed allowing
KATA_TOOLS_STATIC_TARBALL env var to be passed to the release script,
leading to the following error during the release process:
```
ERROR: Invalid environment variable "KATA_TOOLS_STATIC_TARBALL"
```
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Add optional verification that runs after kata-deploy installation.
When a pod spec is provided via --set-file verification.pod=<file>,
a verification job runs after install/upgrade to validate deployment.
The user is fully responsible for the verification pod content:
- Pod name, runtimeClassName, annotations, and verification logic
- Pod must exit 0 on success, non-zero on failure
The verification job simply:
1. Waits for kata-deploy DaemonSet to be ready
2. Applies the user-provided pod spec
3. Waits for the pod to complete
4. Shows logs and cleans up
Usage:
helm install kata-deploy ... \
--set-file verification.pod=/path/to/your-pod.yaml
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
