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Declare candidacy of Arch Committee -- Kaly Xin
by Kaly Xin 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Hi, This is to declare the candidacy of Arch Committee for Arm. The PR is at https://github.com/kata-containers/community/pull/56. The candidacy text file as below: Kata-containers Architecture Committee Candidacy Declaration Platform: Arm Candiate: Kaly Xin <Kaly.Xin(a)arm.com> I'm working for Arm Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co.Ltd. This candidacy is representing Arm company to be voted for one seat of the Kata-container architecture committee. My current role is Senior Engineering Manager in the Open Source Software Group and I lead a team working on virtualization and container technology on the Arm platform. I have more than 10 years of experience in virtualization, especially for hardware virtualization development including KVM and Xen. After that, I transferred focus to OS virtualization and container development. In recent years, my team started development on RunV project, one of the predecessors to Kata-containers, to enable and enhance the multi-arch support. Our focus areas included KVMtool support, performance profiling of the network and storage devices for virtual machines, and we also worked on stability and density improvements. For example, we identified a networking performance gap and improved throughput by 10x on both Arm and x86 platforms. Another example, we proposed and modified the synchronization mechanism between the hyperstart thread and VM. These and other contributions were all merged in RunV upstream. Some of them are already in Kata-container project too. For these collaborations, there were public blogs announced at https://blog.hyper.sh/arm_and_hyper.html and https://community.arm.com/iot/b/blog/posts/arm-and-hyper-hq-will-push-runv-…. We have met regularly with Hyper team to discuss the development issues and solutions of the project. When RunV evolved into kata-containers, we transferred our effort into this new joint project and contribute to it as ever. Initially, We found it couldn't run successfully with multi-arch as before, lots of current test cases and CI environment setting up are not for multi-arch in the first stage. We start to fix the compatibility issues for different architectures. We are also working on the public CI support for mutli-arch to ensure the ongoing reliability and stability of the project. During the process, we feel this new joint project is very open, friendly and full of vitality as before. That's so great to work in the community! Interests: We believe this is just the beginning for the Kata-containers project and that it will have much broader applicability across different architectures and use cases, especially within the emerging next-generation IoT and 5G era! These different use cases will generate new design requirements of the underlying architecture and we believe strongly that good multi-architecture support will be essential to position Kata-containers for broad adoption throughout the cloud native ecosystem. We look forward to driving these changes together, so the Kata-containers project can reach its full potential! Thanks Kaly IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

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Renaming to "kata-discuss"?
by Anne Bertucio 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Hi Kata crew, A while back there was some discussion about renaming this list to “kata-discuss” and having it be broader topics than just development discussions. We were about to make a mailing list for community and advocacy work, but rather than segregate that work (and the people working on those things), it seems better to have a single list (“kata-discuss”) and use the subject line to let people filter through the messages that are most relevant to them (I’d suggest using brackets with the topic area in front of the subject, ie “[advocacy] Container Camp UK sessions” and “[dev] Review needed on PR #305”). How does that sound? Anne Bertucio OpenStack Foundation anne(a)openstack.org | irc: annabelleB

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Declaring candidacy for Eric Ernst
by Ernst, Eric 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Hey Katazens, I would like to throw my hat into the ring as well! I’ve enjoyed the kat-herding so far, and look forward to plenty more opportunities to contribute to the project. Thanks for considering. -Eric -- Background: I am a senior software engineer in Intel's Open Source Technology Center, acting both as a contributor as well as a technical lead for the Intel-team contributing to Kata Containers. Before Kata, I spent time working on Clear Containers, and prior to that spent a few years working on Linux kernel. Since the initial discussions of creating Kata started I have been an active contributor and advocate for the project, both in code and in the greater Kata community/ecosystem. While I do work within a silicon company, one of my primary goals for helping guide Kata has been developing a neutral and diverse contribution base. Aside from having a stable, compatible, and viable technical basis for the project, I think a healthy and robust community is key to sustained success. For me, working with end-users to understand use cases and seeing how Kata can be part of their solution is very exciting. I think this will be a big part of Kata as we continue to move forward. In addition, continued focus on scaling, ecosystem integration, performance, security and stability will be key to meeting user needs. I've also been focusing on making sure Kata fits into Kubernetes and the rest of the ecosystem, which Has been evolving over time. There is a lot to focus on! The journey to Kata 1.2 has been great, and I look forward to continuing to contribute to the project.

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Berlin Community Contributor Awards
by Kendall Nelson 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Hello Everyone! As we approach the Summit (still a ways away thankfully), its time to kick off the Community Contributor Award nominations! For those of you that might already know what they are, here is the form[1]. For those of you that have never heard of the CCA, I'll briefly explain what they are :) We all know people in the community that do the dirty jobs, we all know people that will bend over backwards trying to help someone new, we all know someone that is a savant in some area of the code we could never hope to understand. These people rarely get the thanks they deserve and the Community Contributor Awards are a chance to make sure they know that they are appreciated for the amazing work they do and skills they have. So go forth and nominate these amazing community members[1]! Nominations will close on October 21st at 7:00 UTC and winners will be announced at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin[2]. -Kendall Nelson (diablo_rojo) [1] https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/berlin_stein_ccas [2]https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/

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Kata Architecture Committee Elections: Nomination period now open
by Anne Bertucio 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

Hi all, The nomination period for the Architecture Committee election is now open. How to run for a seat: 1) Review the responsibilities of the Architecture Committee members [1] 2) Between now and August 27 at 14:59 UTC, you can declare your candidacy for one of the three open seats by submitting a textfile with your name (please put your name as the file name), reason for running and your platform/objectives to this folder[2]. Please also send a message to the kata-dev ML with this same info, declaring your candidacy. Election Process: The full process is outlined here [3], but key dates are as follows: August 20, 1500 UTC - August 27, 2018 14:59 UTC: Candidate nominations open August 27, 1500 UTC - September 3, 2018 14:59 UTC: Q&A/Debate period September 3, 1500 UTC - September 10, 2018 14:59 UTC: Voting open Week of September 11, 2018, results announced Who can vote: Anyone who has had a commit merged into the project in the last 12 months will be eligible to vote. Because this is our first election, I’d like to test our electorate generation process--I will send a message to all eligible voters this week, and give anyone who doesn’t receive a message (who thinks they should have) a chance to raise their hand. Keep an eye out for those emails later on. Please let me know if you have any questions about running for a seat or the election process! [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#architec… <https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#architec…> [2] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections/arch-com… <https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections/arch-com…> [3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections <https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections> Anne Bertucio OpenStack Foundation anne(a)openstack.org | irc: annabelleB

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Testing Kata Security Promises
by Larrew, Jesse 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi all, Are there any tools or tests available that aim to validate the security promises of the Kata architecture? I've looked in the testing repo, but that seems to contain mostly functional tests. I'm interested in something that could be used to validate statements like, "The guest cannot do X. The host cannot do Y. Etc." Does something like this exist for Kata? Sincerely, Jesse

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Declare candidacy: Wei Zhang
by zhangwei (CR) 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi Everyone, This is an email for declaring my own candidacy as requested, PR is https://github.com/kata-containers/community/pull/55 Copy text: ``` Name: Wei Zhang Email: zhangwei555(a)huawei.com Introduction: I am now working as a Senior Engineer in Huawei Corporation, leading a team which is responsible for providing container solutions based on K8s/docker/kata-containers to other departments and Huawei Public Cloud. I was once a docker developer and now is an active kata contributor, and has been Architecture Committee Member for about eight months. Kata Containers is a great project which can help reduce some security concerns comparing to native container solution, and I don't think I need more words to elaborate how great it is because I believe all the readers of this file are familiar enough to Kata. :-) So I wish to renew my seat, and do more work to help kata community to make excellent open source project, and then make better product based on Kata to our customers. ``` Hope this can become a good start of our election ☺ Thank you! Wei Zhang 发件人: Anne Bertucio [mailto:anne@openstack.org] 发送时间: 2018年8月20日 22:59 收件人: kata-dev(a)lists.katacontainers.io 主题: [kata-dev] Kata Architecture Committee Elections: Nomination period now open Hi all, The nomination period for the Architecture Committee election is now open. How to run for a seat: 1) Review the responsibilities of the Architecture Committee members [1] 2) Between now and August 27 at 14:59 UTC, you can declare your candidacy for one of the three open seats by submitting a textfile with your name (please put your name as the file name), reason for running and your platform/objectives to this folder[2]. Please also send a message to the kata-dev ML with this same info, declaring your candidacy. Election Process: The full process is outlined here [3], but key dates are as follows: * August 20, 1500 UTC - August 27, 2018 14:59 UTC: Candidate nominations open * August 27, 1500 UTC - September 3, 2018 14:59 UTC: Q&A/Debate period * September 3, 1500 UTC - September 10, 2018 14:59 UTC: Voting open * Week of September 11, 2018, results announced Who can vote: Anyone who has had a commit merged into the project in the last 12 months will be eligible to vote. Because this is our first election, I’d like to test our electorate generation process--I will send a message to all eligible voters this week, and give anyone who doesn’t receive a message (who thinks they should have) a chance to raise their hand. Keep an eye out for those emails later on. Please let me know if you have any questions about running for a seat or the election process! [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#architec… [2] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections/arch-com… [3] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections Anne Bertucio OpenStack Foundation anne(a)openstack.org<mailto:anne@openstack.org> | irc: annabelleB

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Architecture Committee electorate notified
by Anne Bertucio 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi all, As I mentioned on the Architecture Committee call yesterday, the AC has an election coming up! If you are eligible to vote in the upcoming election, you should have just received an email from me. If you have made commits with multiple email addresses, the email address notified is the one listed as your primary in your GitHub. If you did not receive an email and believe you should have (based on the electorate definition [1]) please let me know. Cheers, Anne [1] https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#electora… <https://github.com/kata-containers/community/tree/master/elections#electora…> Anne Bertucio OpenStack Foundation anne(a)openstack.org | irc: annabelleB

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Clear Linux* OS announces Kata Containers to be set as default runtime (Final notice)
by Lamego, Jose A 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Clear Linux* OS announces Kata Containers to be set as default runtime As previously announced, Kata Containers is available in any Clear Linux* OS version above 23380, and Clear Containers is scheduled to be deprecated. As part of the Clear Containers deprecation, the default containers runtime will be set to be Kata Containers on August 21. What should you do if you are already using Kata Containers? No further action is required from you, since you already have the latest configuration in place. What should you do if you are using Clear Containers? Use the Migrate Clear Containers to Kata Containers* tutorial at https://clearlinux.org/documentation/clear-linux/tutorials/kata_migration to migrate to Kata Containers if you want to migrate immediately. From August 21, after the next Clear Linux OS update performed on your system (either manual or automated), Kata Containers runtime will be the default. Although further Clear Containers usage is not recommended, you will temporarily be able to do so by manually re-configuring your system to point to cc-runtime as default runtime until it is removed on August 21th. For any issues or questions regarding Kata Containers in Clear Linux, please contact us through the mailing list: https://lists.clearlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or the IRC channel: https://clearlinux.org/community/irc-channel. COPYRIGHT (c) 2018 Intel Corporation, All Rights Reserved *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others

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Kat herder for this week
by Whaley, Graham 20 Aug '18

20 Aug '18

Good morning! This week's Kat Herder is Julio(devimc) - please give him all the help and support you can to help clear down our backlog and keep things flowing.... https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Review-Team-Rota Graham --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies.

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