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Kata Containers documentation

Documentation

The Kata Containers documentation repository hosts overall system documentation, with information common to multiple components.

For details of the other Kata Containers repositories, see the repository summary.

Getting Started

• Installation guides: Install and run Kata Containers with Docker or Kubernetes

More User Guides

• Upgrading: how to upgrade from Clear Containers and runV to Kata Containers and how to upgrade an existing Kata Containers system to the latest version.

• Limitations: differences and limitations compared with the default Docker runtime, runc.

• HOWTO: Kata Containers with k8s and cri-containerd

• HOWTO: OpenStack Zun with Kata Containers

• HOWTO: Kata Containers with Firecracker

• HOWTO: Sysctls with Kata Containers

• HOWTO: VM Templating and VM Cache

Kata Use-Cases

• VPP with Kata
• SR-IOV with Kata
• GPU Passthrough with Kata

Developer Guide

Documents that help to understand and contribute to Kata Containers.

Design and Implementations

• Kata Containers Architecture: Architectural overview of Kata Containers
• Kata Containers design: More Kata Containers design documents

How to Contribute

• Developer Guide: Setup the Kata Containers developing environments
• How to contribute to Kata Containers
• Code of Conduct

Code Licensing

• Licensing: About the licensing strategy of Kata Containers.

The Release Process

• Release strategy
• Release Checklist

Help Improving the Documents

• Documentation Requirements