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Update the composable-vm-images proposal with the design decisions we only
arrived at after experimenting with the implementation:
* Replace the hardcoded agent path-resolution table with the data-driven
components.toml manifest (process levels, args/optional_args, env,
wait_socket, ${...} substitution, and select/variants), keeping the agent
generic.
* Document the attester-variant contract: NVRC exports KATA_ATTESTER_VARIANT
and the manifest selects the stock vs NVIDIA attestation-agent.
* Document the runtime dependency requirements found during bring-up: the
nvidia attester's LD_LIBRARY_PATH (libnvat closure in the coco addon +
NVML in the gpu addon) and the NVML-init failure mode, plus CDH
secure_mount tooling placement -- plain storage (mke2fs/mkfs.ext4/dd) in
the base vs encrypted storage (cryptsetup) in the coco addon, the CDH
PATH, and the base/addon ABI lockstep.
* Reflect the storage tooling and bundled libraries in the base/coco-addon
build sections, and mark the GPU addon as implemented.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
Assisted-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Documentation
The Kata Containers documentation repository hosts overall system documentation, with information common to multiple components.
For details of the other Kata Containers repositories, see the repository summary.
Getting Started
- Installation guides: Install and run Kata Containers with Docker or Kubernetes
Tracing
See the tracing documentation.
More User Guides
- Upgrading: how to upgrade from Clear Containers and runV to Kata Containers and how to upgrade an existing Kata Containers system to the latest version.
- Limitations: differences and limitations compared with the default Docker runtime,
runc.
How-to guides
See the how-to documentation.
Kata Use-Cases
- GPU Passthrough with Kata
- SR-IOV with Kata
- Intel QAT with Kata
- SPDK vhost-user with Kata
- Intel SGX with Kata
- IBM Crypto Express passthrough with Confidential Containers
Developer Guide
Documents that help to understand and contribute to Kata Containers.
Design and Implementations
- Kata Containers Architecture: Architectural overview of Kata Containers
- Kata Containers CI: Kata Containers CI document
- Kata Containers E2E Flow: The entire end-to-end flow of Kata Containers
- Kata Containers design: More Kata Containers design documents
- Kata Containers threat model: Kata Containers threat model
How to Contribute
- Developer Guide: Setup the Kata Containers developing environments
- How to contribute to Kata Containers
- Code of Conduct
- How to submit a blog post
Help Writing a Code PR
Help Writing Unit Tests
Help Improving the Documents
Code Licensing
- Licensing: About the licensing strategy of Kata Containers.
The Release Process
Presentations
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