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The speed of containers, the security of VMs

Kata Containers is an open source container runtime, building
lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers
ecosystem.
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#About Kata Containers

Kata Containers is an open source community working to build a secure
container runtime with lightweight virtual machines that feel and
perform like containers, but provide stronger workload isolation
using hardware virtualization technology as a second layer of
defense.

Since launching in December 2017, the community successfully merged
the best parts of Intel Clear Containers with Hyper.sh RunV and
scaled to include support for major architectures including AMD64,
ARM, IBM p-series and IBM z-series in addition to x86_64. Kata
Containers also supports multiple hypervisors including QEMU,
Cloud-Hypervisor and Firecracker and integrates with the containerd
project among others.

The Kata Containers community is stewarded by the Open Infrastructure
Foundation, which supports the development and adoption of open
infrastructure globally. The code is hosted at GitHub under the
Apache 2 license.

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Features

Security      Runs in a dedicated kernel, providing isolation of
              network, I/O and memory and can utilize
Security      hardware-enforced isolation with virtualization VT
              extensions.
Compatibility Supports industry standards including OCI container
              format, Kubernetes CRI interface, as well as legacy
Compatibility virtualization technologies.

Performance   Delivers consistent performance as standard Linux
              containers; increased isolation without the performance
Performance   tax of standard virtual machines.

Simplicity    Eliminates the requirement for nesting containers
              inside full blown virtual machines; standard interfaces
Simplicity    make it easy to plug in and get started.

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