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Building secure container infrastructure with Kata Containers

The OpenStack Foundation has announced a new open source project—Kata

Containers, which aims to unite the security advantages of virtual machines

(VMs) with the speed and manageability of container technologies. The

project is designed to be hardware agnostic and compatible with Open

Container Initiative (OCI)

specifications, as well as the

container runtime interface

(CRI) for Kubernetes.

Intel is contributing

its open source Intel Clear

Containers project and

Hyper is contributing

its runV technology to

initiate the project. Besides

Intel and Hyper, 99cloud,

AWcloud, Canonical, China Mobile, City Network, CoreOS, Dell/EMC,

EasyStack, Fiberhome, Google, Huawei, JD.com, Mirantis, NetApp, Red

Hat, SUSE, Tencent, Ucloud, UnitedStack, and ZTE are also supporting the

project’s launch.

The Kata Containers project will initially comprise six components, which

include the agent, runtime, proxy, Shim, kernel and packaging of QEMU 2.9.

It is designed to be architecture agnostic and to run on multiple hypervisors.

Kata Containers offers the ability to run container management tools directly

on bare metal.

“The Kata Containers Project is an exciting addition to the OpenStack

Foundation family of projects. Lighter, faster, more secure VM technology fits

perfectly into the OpenStack Foundation family and aligns well with Canonical’s

data centre efficiency initiatives. Like Clear Containers and Hyper.sh previously,

Kata Container users will find their hypervisor and guests well supported on

Ubuntu,” said Dustin Kirkland, vice president, product, Canonical.

Fedora 27 released

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-driven open source

collaboration, has announced the general availability of Fedora 27. All

editions of Fedora 27 are

built from a common set

of base packages and,

as with all new Fedora

releases, these packages

have seen numerous

tweaks, incremental

improvements and new

additions. For Fedora

27, this includes the

GNU C Library 2.26 and RPM 4.14.

“Building and supporting the next generation of applications remains a critical

focus for the Fedora community, showcased in Fedora 27 by our continued

support and refinement of system containers and containerised services like

Kubernetes and Flannel. More traditional developers and end users will be pleased

Red Hat OpenShift

Container Platform 3.7

released

Red Hat has launched the latest

OpenShift Container Platform 3.7,

the version of Red Hat’s enterprise-

grade Kubernetes container

application platform. As application

complexity and cloud incompatibility

increase, Red Hat OpenShift

Container Platform 3.7 will help IT

organisations to build and manage

applications that use services from the

data centre to the public cloud.

The latest version of the industry’s

most comprehensive enterprise

Kubernetes platform includes native

integrations with Amazon Web Services

(AWS) service brokers, which enable

developers to bind services across AWS

and on-premise resources to create

modern applications while providing

a consistent, open standards-based

foundation to drive business evolution.

“We are excited about our

collaboration with Red Hat and

the general availability of the first

AWS service brokers in Red Hat

OpenShift. The ability to seamlessly

configure and deploy a range of AWS

services from within OpenShift will

allow our customers to benefit from

AWS’s rapid pace of innovation,

both on-premises and in the cloud,”

said Matt Yanchyshyn, director,

partner solution architecture,

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Red Hat OpenShift Container

Platform 3.7 will ship with the

OpenShift template broker, which

turns any OpenShift template into a

discoverable service for application

developers using OpenShift.

OpenShift templates are lists

of OpenShift objects that can

be implemented within specific

parameters, making it easier for IT

organisations to deploy reusable,

composite applications comprising

microservices.

JANUARY 2018

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