[kata-dev] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Kata Containers 1.3.0 release and 1.2.2 stable release

Samuel Ortiz sameo at linux.intel.com
Fri Sep 28 10:14:05 UTC 2018


Very nice, kudos to the whole Kata community for putting that release
up!

Cheers,
Samuel.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 05:26:15PM +0800, Tao Peng wrote:
> Hello Kata Kats,
> 
> I'm proud to announce that we have reached another milestone for Kata
> Containers by releasing the 1.3.0 release and 1.2.2 stable release.
> All users are recommended to upgrade.
> 
> The 1.3.0 release highlights following features:
> 
> - Network hotplug: Sandbox network can now be dynamically changed by
> the "kata-runtime network" subcommand. This allows customized CNI
> plugins to create more Kata-native network endpoints.
> 
> - Network monitoring: a new kata component (kata-netmon) is added to
> monitor container netns on the host. Now CNI hooks to dynamically
> change the network setup of a running container, and "docker network
> connect" works with Kata Containers.
> 
> - Network multiqueue support: Network cards are added to to the guest
> with multiqueue support. It allows Kata Containers to gain better
> network performance.
> 
> - Memory hotplug: "kata-runtime update" subcommand can now add extra
> memory to a running container.
> 
> - Better container memory constraint support: containers in the same
> sandbox can be constrained by memcg inside the guest.
> 
> - GPU support: both GVT-g and GVT-d GPU devices can now be used by
> Kata Containers.
> 
> - Architecture/arm64: add GICv4 or higher support.
> 
> For full details, please see
> https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.3.0
> 
> The 1.2.2 stable release also sees several important fixes and users
> who want to stick with stable-1.2 branch are recommended to update.
> For full details, please see
> https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/releases/tag/1.2.2
> 
> Thanks to all contributors who have helped to make it happen!
> 
> Cheers,
> Tao
> -- 
> bergwolf at hyper.sh
> 
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