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Fabiano Fidêncio b4b62417ed kata-deploy: skip cleanup on pod restart to avoid crashing kata pods
When a kata-deploy DaemonSet pod is restarted (e.g. due to a label
change or rolling update), the SIGTERM handler runs cleanup which
unconditionally removes kata artifacts and restarts containerd. This
causes containerd to lose the kata shim binary, crashing all running
kata pods on the node.

Fix this by implementing a three-stage cleanup decision:

1. If this pod's owning DaemonSet still exists (exact name match via
   DAEMONSET_NAME env var), this is a pod restart — skip all cleanup.
   The replacement pod will re-run install, which is idempotent.

2. If this DaemonSet is gone but other kata-deploy DaemonSets still
   exist (multi-install scenario), perform instance-specific cleanup
   only (snapshotters, CRI config, artifacts) but skip shared
   resources (node label removal, CRI restart) to avoid disrupting
   the other instances.

3. If no kata-deploy DaemonSets remain, perform full cleanup including
   node label removal and CRI restart.

The Helm chart injects a DAEMONSET_NAME environment variable with the
exact DaemonSet name (including any multi-install suffix), ensuring
instance-aware lookup rather than broadly matching any DaemonSet
containing "kata-deploy".

Fixes: #12761

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <ffidencio@nvidia.com>
2026-04-01 15:20:52 +02:00
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Kata Containers packaging

Introduction

Kata Containers currently supports packages for many distributions. Tooling to aid in creating these packages are contained within this repository.

Build in a container

Kata build artifacts are available within a container image, created by a Dockerfile. Reference DaemonSets are provided in kata-deploy, which make installation of Kata Containers in a running Kubernetes Cluster very straightforward.

Build static binaries

See the static build documentation.

Build Kata Containers Kernel

See the kernel documentation.

Build QEMU

See the QEMU documentation.

Create a Kata Containers release

See the release documentation.

Packaging scripts

See the scripts documentation.

Credits

Kata Containers packaging uses packagecloud for package hosting.