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Welcome to the latest edition of the OpenStack Foundation Open Infrastructure Newsletter, a digest of the latest developments and activities across open infrastructure projects, events and users. Sign up to receive the newsletter and email [email protected] to contribute.
Spotlight on…Kata Containers turns one!
Kata Containers is an open source pilot project supported by the OpenStack Foundation. The Kata Containers community is building a standard implementation of extremely lightweight VMs that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of adding a virtual machine layer. The Kata project is led by Architecture Committee members Eric Ernst (Intel) and Jon Olson (Google), Samuel Ortiz (Intel), Xu Wang (Hyper) and Wei Zhang (Huawei).
Since launching Kata in December 2017, the community has achieved several milestones including the 1.0 release in May followed by several point releases, joining the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and holding the first Architecture Committee elections.
Yesterday afternoon we stumbled on the last meeting before this morning’s @katacontainers 1.0 release! Congrats to all Kata contributors! ?#ThisIsOpenInfra #OpenStackSummit pic.twitter.com/2yM8lJwYBJ
— OpenStack (@OpenStack) May 22, 2018
Kata’s 1.0 release completed the merger of Intel’s Clear Containers and Hyper’s runV technologies and delivered an OCI compatible runtime with seamless integration for container ecosystem technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
Most recently the project has made rapid advancements with the 1.4.0 release which offers better logging, ipvlan/macvlan support through TC mirroring, and NEMU hypervisor support. Since its launch, Kata Containers has scaled to include support for major architectures, including AMD64, ARM and IBM p-series. The 1.5 release is currently planned for mid January 2019, and will offer support for containerd v2 shim among other features. The team is also collaborating and exploring opportunities to support the new Firecracker micro VM alongside NEMU and QEMU.
A recap of Kata’s first year activities can be found in this Superuser post. View the Kata Containers talks from the 2018 KubeCon/CloudNativeCon events here and the 2018 OpenStack Summits here. Looking ahead to 2019 the Kata community plans to focus on growing and supporting it’s users, leading the way for open collaboration around container security efforts and better defining its value within the greater container landscape.
Join these channels to get involved:
– GitHub: github.com/kata-containers
– Slack: bit.ly/KataSlack
– IRC: #kata-dev on Freenode
– Mailing list lists.katacontainers.io
News
OSF
- The first Open Infrastructure Summit (formerly the OpenStack Summit) will take place April 29-May 1 in Denver, Colorado
- The Call for Presentations is now open – review the updated Track list and submit your presentation, panel, or workshop by January 23 at 11:59pm PT. If you’re interested in helping shape the Summit content, apply to be a Programming Committee member.
- Denver Summit sponsorship opportunities are now available. Check out the packages and reach out to [email protected] with any questions.
- Register now before prices increase in late February.
OSF Project Updates
OpenStack
- The Technical Committee published a first version of a document describing the role of the TC. This is a living document: changes can be proposed using the governance git repository.
- A number of OpenStack Forum session summaries were posted to help the people who did not have the chance to attend the session at the Berlin Summit. You can find a list of those on this wiki page.
Airship
- The Airship team is currently working away at their 1.0 release due in early 2019. The work in progress for the Airship 1.0 release included improvements across the following areas: Airship will be adding support for Ironic as a bare-metal deployment platform. This work is currently in the proof-of-concept phase. If you’re interested in helping to design the bare-metal interface to the Ironic driver, please join the team for their weekly design meetings. Details for each meeting can be found in the airship-discuss mailing list.
StarlingX
- The community is actively planning for the contributor meetup on January 15-16, 2019
- The TSC finalized the initial project governance which is available on the governance page documentation website
Zuul
- A Zuul Project Update was sent on December 3, some of which was summarized in the previous IOI article from December 5 and another was posted on December 17.
- Initial documentation of the Zuul community governance model has been proposed, and the community welcomes public feedback.
Questions / Feedback / Contribute
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Allison Price
OpenStack Foundation
