mirror of
https://github.com/aljazceru/kata-containers.git
synced 2026-02-20 14:04:30 +01:00
0e1b500fec
- Overview - Terms Signed-off-by: Jose Carlos Venegas Munoz <jose.carlos.venegas.munoz@intel.com>
34 lines
1.0 KiB
Markdown
34 lines
1.0 KiB
Markdown
# Overview #
|
|
|
|
`Kata Containers runtime` creates a Virtual Machine to isolate a set of
|
|
container workloads. The Virtual Machine requires a operating system
|
|
operating (`Guest OS`) to boot and create containers inside the guest
|
|
environment.
|
|
|
|
This repository contains tools to create a `Guest OS` for `Kata
|
|
Containers`.
|
|
|
|
## Terms ##
|
|
|
|
This section describe the terms used as along all this document.
|
|
|
|
- `Guest OS`
|
|
|
|
It is the collection of a `virtual disk` or `disk image` and `kernel`
|
|
that in conjunction work as an operating system and it is different than
|
|
the host operating system.
|
|
|
|
- `Virtual disk` or `Guest Image`
|
|
|
|
It is a virtual disk witch contains a `rootfs` that will be used to boot
|
|
a Virtual Machine by for the `Kata Containers runtime`.
|
|
|
|
- `rootfs`
|
|
|
|
The root filesystem or rootfs is the filesystem that is contained in the
|
|
guest root directory. It can be built from any Linux Distribution but
|
|
must provide at least the following components:
|
|
- Kata agent
|
|
- A `init` system (for example `systemd`) witch allow to start
|
|
Kata agent at boot time.
|