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Kata Containers : Bridging The Gap Between Containers And Virtual Machines

Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs.

License

The code is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See the license file for further details.

Platform Support

Kata Containers currently runs on 64-bit systems supporting the following technologies:

ArchitectureVirtualization technology
x86_64, amd64Intel VT-x, AMD SVM
aarch64 (“arm64“)ARM Hyp
ppc64leIBM Power
s390xIBM Z & LinuxONE SIE

Hardware Requirements

The Kata Containers runtime provides a command to determine if your host system is capable of running and creating a Kata Container:

$ kata-runtime check

For more information click here.

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