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Fabiano Fidêncio 89ba9cdeb0 kata-ctl: drop cross-rs cross-build tooling
kata-ctl shipped a Cross.toml and a "Cross-builds" README section
describing how to cross compile the tool for other architectures with
cross-rs (installing foreign-arch libssl via dpkg multiarch pre-build
hooks).

This is not exercised on our side: kata-ctl is built on native-arch
runners. Remove Cross.toml and the cross-build documentation.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-07-20 21:00:37 +02:00
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Kata Containers control tool

Overview

The kata-ctl tool is a rust rewrite of the kata-runtime utility program.

The program provides a number of utility commands for:

  • Using advanced Kata Containers features.
  • Problem determination and debugging.

Audience and environment

Users and administrators.

Build the tool

$ make

Install the tool

$ make install

If you would like to install the tool to a specific directory, then you can provide it through the INSTALL_PATH variable.

$ make install INSTALL_PATH=/path/to/your/custom/install/directory

Run the tool

$ kata-ctl ...

For example, to determine if your system is capable of running Kata Containers, run:

$ kata-ctl check all

Full details

For a usage statement, run:

$ kata-ctl --help

Documentation for included tools:

| Component | Description | | log-parser | Tool that aid in analyzing logs from the kata runtime. |