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Kata Containers

The speed of containers, the security of VMs

Welcome to Kata Containers

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.

Official website

The main Kata Containers site is https://katacontainers.io.

Getting started

See the installation documentation.

Documentation

See the official documentation.

Developers

The source code and unit test code for Kata Containers lives in the main repository.

Testers

The tests repository contains the more advanced test code run by the Kata Containers Continuous Integration (CI) system.

The configuration files for the CI itself live in the ci repository.

Web developers

The source code for the official website is https://github.com/kata-containers/www.katacontainers.io.

Community

To learn more about the project, its community and governance, see the community repository. This is the first place to go if you wish to contribute to the project.

Get help

See the community section for ways to contact us.

Get involved

See the community section for ways to join us.

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    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. https://katacontainers.io/

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    CI dashboard for Kata Containers and Confidential Containers

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    A mirror of kata-containers to hold archives of our old branches for previous releases

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    Kata Containers default files for GitHub repositories

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    Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics

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    Kata Containers CI

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