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While the use-case of Intel QuickAssist (QAT) accelerated crypto and/or compression with k8s and Kata Containers is still valid, the setup instructions are outdated: Starting with Intel Xeon Gen4 (Sapphire Rapids), QAT driver stack moved to in-tree drivers without a separete SR-IOV VF driver. Drop all the setup instructions but keep the use-cases doc for reference. Users wanting to enable the use-case, should consult with Intel QAT Device plugins or Intel QAT DRA driver authors. Signed-off-by: Mikko Ylinen <mikko.ylinen@intel.com>
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Note:: This guide used to contain an end-to-end flow to build a custom Kata containers root filesystem with QAT out-of-tree SR-IOV virtual function driver and run QAT enabled containers. The former is no longer necessary so the instructions are dropped. If the use-case is still of interest, please file an issue in either of the QAT Kubernetes specific repos linked below.
Introduction
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) provides hardware acceleration for security (cryptography) and compression. Kata Containers can enable these acceleration functions for containers using QAT SR-IOV with the support from Intel QAT Device Plugin for Kubernetes or Intel QAT DRA Resource Driver for Kubernetes.
More Information
Intel® QuickAssist Technology at 01.org
Intel® QuickAssist Technology Engine for OpenSSL
Intel Device Plugin for Kubernetes