Feature Overview

Katacontainers provides a myriad of benefits including but not limited to isolation, mixed payloads, multi-tenancy (e.g., CNF vendors on the same host in the context of Telco), kernel isolation (host and guest), and more. These benefits served to attract multiple customers, where a large portion of those customers are from the Telco 5G space.

That said, to satisfy the requirements for Telco use-cases (e.g., high performance, no nesting), we are creating this feature to track and contain all efforts to test, validate, and qualify the deployment of Katacontainers on bare-metal hardware.

Background, and strategic fit

Telco is a key use-case for Kata, and is also the background of one of the first large potential customers, therefore it is important to enable the telco use-case on Kata to drive further adoption, and providing Kata on bare-metal serves that purpose.

Goal(s)

The main goal is to make sure that Kata is functional (tested, validated, and Qualified) with Baremetal hardware.

Documentation Considerations

Questions to be addressed:

• What educational or reference material (docs) is required to support this product feature? For users/admins? Other functions (security officers, etc)?
• Does this feature have doc impact?
• New Content, Updates to existing content, Release Note, or No Doc Impact
• If unsure and no Technical Writer is available, please contact Content Strategy.
• What concepts do customers need to understand to be successful in [action]?
• How do we expect customers will use the feature? For what purpose(s)?
• What reference material might a customer want/need to complete [action]?
• Is there source material that can be used as reference for the Technical Writer in writing the content? If yes, please link if available.
• What is the doc impact (New Content, Updates to existing content, or Release Note)?