[kata-dev] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Kata Containers 1.4.0 release

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Fri Nov 23 11:45:52 UTC 2018


Hi,

This is awesome and exciting!  I do have a small question.

Thanks,
Mohammed

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 5:58 AM Xu Wang <xu at hyper.sh> wrote:

> Good job!
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 18:29 Tao Peng <bergwolf at hyper.sh wrote:
>
>> Hello Kata-ers,
>>
>> I am happy to announce Kata Containers 1.4.0 release. It comes with
>> several nice new features and many bug-fixes. All users are
>> recommended to upgrade.
>>
>> The 1.4.0 release highlights following features:
>>
>> - Host cgroups support: qemu process and vcpu threads are now put in
>> proper cpu cgroup in the host and cpu quota and period are used to
>> constrain them.
>>
>> - NEMU `virt` machine type support: The new machine type is specially
>> optimized for cloud environments and thus a great fit for Kata
>> Containers use case. For more information about NEMU, see
>> https://github.com/intel/nemu.
>>
>
Is there jobs testing nemu in Jenkins?


> - New NetInterworkingModel `none`: It works with tap endpoint types so
>> that enlightened CNI plugins can add tap devices to a sandbox
>> directly, bypassing host network namespaces and thus provide better
>> performance with less network setup complexity.
>>
>> - New NetInterworkingModel `tcfilter`: Yet another method for Kata
>> Containers to bridge the host netns veth and guest tap device, with TC
>> filter rules. With it, Kata Containers have better compatibility with
>> different network endpoint types.
>>
>> - Enable macvlan and ipvlan network support: These two networking
>> models provide lightweight and fast access to underlay or host
>> interfaces without NATTing.
>>
>> - Guest rootfs image can now have a `guest_hook_path` to save a bunch
>> of prestart/poststart/prestop/poststop hook binaries, and they will be
>> executed in the guest at specified container life cycle point
>> accordingly.
>>
>> For full details, please see
>> https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.4.0
>>
>> Kudos to all Kata community members for making it happen!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tao
>>
>> --
>> bergwolf at hyper.sh
>>
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