Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

Kata containers

This is another open source solution managed by the OpenStack Foundation (OSF), in the form of Kata containers. It combines technology from Intel's clear containers and Hyper.sh RunV. It supports multiple hypervisors, such QEMU, NEMU, and even Firecracker. The goal of the Kata containers is to build a secure container runtime based on hardware virtualization for workload isolation. Kata containers can already be used on Kubernetes via containerd.

It's hard to tell how it will all shake up. There was already some consolidation. There is strong demand for safe and secure container runtimes. All the projects can either be used on Kubernetes already, or there are plans to integrate them soon. This will probably be one of the most ...