kata-containers/src/tools/kata-ctl

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. |