kata-containers/docs

Documentation

• Getting Started
• More User Guides
• Kata Use-Cases
• Developer Guide
  • Design and Implementations
  • How to Contribute
  • Code Licensing
  • The Release Process
• Help Improving the Documents
• Website Changes

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 guides

See the howto documentation.

Kata Use-Cases

• GPU Passthrough with Kata
• OpenStack Zun with Kata Containers
• SR-IOV with Kata
• Intel QAT with Kata
• VPP with Kata
• SPDK vhost-user 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 Process

Help Improving the Documents

• Documentation Requirements

Website Changes

If you have a suggestion for how we can improve the website, please raise an issue (or a PR) on the repository that holds the source for the website.