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Deadline AUGUST 30 - Berlin Summit Travel Support
by Claire Massey 30 Aug '18

30 Aug '18

Hi everyone, OSF covers travel costs (hotel and/or flight) for a limited quantity of applicants for each Summit. The deadline to apply for Travel Support to the November Berlin Summit closes TOMORROW, Thursday, August 30 at 11:59pm PT. If your company will not cover costs for you to attend the Berlin Summit <https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/>, then you’re welcome to APPLY HERE <https://openstackfoundation.formstack.com/forms/travelsupportberlin>. The Travel Support Program's aim is to facilitate participation of active community members to the Summit by covering the costs for their travel and accommodation. If you are a key contributor to a project managed by the OpenStack Foundation, and your company does not cover the costs of your travel and accommodation to Berlin, you can apply for the Travel Support Program. Please email summit(a)openstack.org <mailto:summit@openstack.org> with any questions. Thanks, Claire

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Users and their areas of interest
by Hunt, James O 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

I've put together a rough table showing some of the users and their areas of interest / specialist areas: https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Areas-of-interest This page could be useful for those raising PRs as they can look over the table and then add a few folk as explicit reviewers. It could also be useful for the weeks Kool Kats [1] to, again, manually add explicit reviewers for those PRs without much activity If I've offended you by either missing you out mis-specifying your interests, I humbly apologise [2]. It's a first cut so there are bound to be mistakes - feel free to update it [3] :) Cheers, James. [1] - https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Review-Team-Rota [2] - If the spelling of that word offends you, I humbly apologize. [3] - But if you don't have privs, please let us know and we'll fix it: https://github.com/kata-containers/community#join-us --- https://katacontainers.io/ | https://github.com/kata-containers <https://github.com/clearcontainers> Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ.

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Kat herders for the week
by Whaley, Graham 28 Aug '18

28 Aug '18

Good morning, (apologies for posting on Tuesday - yesterday was a public holiday here...) Kat Herders for this week are Yash, James and Ricardo. https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Review-Team-Rota I'm aware that both Yash and Ricardo may not have merge rights on the repos, so maintainers, please be vigilant and try and move those merges along (Yash, Ricardo, feel free to drag the maintainers in when necessary!) Thanks! 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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Reminder: Berlin Summit tickets increase Aug 28
by Anne Bertucio 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Hi all, Quick reminder that early bird tickets for the OpenStack Summit Berlin, November 13-15, end in ~30 hours: August 28 at 11:59pm PT/August 29 at 6:59 UTC. The early bird price is $699 USD for a full access pass; goes up to $999 USD after early bird. There’s a handful of awesome looking Kata sessions [1], there’s talks from heaps of other open source projects and plenty of opportunities to meet these folks and chat about the integration points with Kata, as well as meet with other Kata Kats! It’s also a great opportunity for us to talk with potential Kata users and get input on technical direction. You can snag that early bird price on Eventbrite [2]. Hope to see you there! [1] https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/summit-schedule/global-search?… <https://www.openstack.org/summit/berlin-2018/summit-schedule/global-search?…> [2] https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-summit-november-2018-berlin-tickets-… <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openstack-summit-november-2018-berlin-tickets-…> Anne Bertucio OpenStack Foundation anne(a)openstack.org | irc: annabelleB

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Kata Arch Council Candidacy Declaration - Jon Olson
by Jon Olson 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Name: Jon Olson Email: jonolson(a)google.com Background: I am a staff software engineer at Google working on the core virtualization and I/O layer backing Google Compute Engine. My work is focused on resource footprint minimization as well as performance optimization and stability. Part of this work is improving our support for containerized workloads and ensuring it is aligned with the needs of our customer community (e.g., Kata users). My involvement with the Kata community has included being a regular attendee at the weekly Kata Arch Council meetings. To these meetings I’ve brought context from my work building and maintaining a hypervisor that supports long-lived workloads at scale, as well as the occasional PR for getting Kata running in GCE. I believe whole workload containment via virtualization is a key component to addressing the broad problem of container security. Having a strong, open solution to that problem is critical to ensuring all workloads can run securely, regardless of where they are deployed. I enjoy working with the Kata community to build such a solution, and look forward to many more core-hours of security contained workloads. Jon

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Kat herder's for the week
by yash jain 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Good morning! The Kat Herder's for this week are Jodh (@jodh-intel), Rico Ravarena (@rico) and me (@ydjainopensource). Jodh's out on Monday while I leave half day on Thursday. I am new here so please give me all the help and support you can to help clear down our backlog and keep things flowing.... Details can be found on the wiki page at https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Review-Team-Rota -- Thanks Yash D Jain Github : @ydjainopensource <https://github.com/ydjainopensource> Twitter : @Yash_D_Jain <https://twitter.com/Yash_D_Jain> LinkedIn : in/yash-d-jain <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-d-jain/>

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Declare candidacy of Arch Committee -- Kaly Xin
by Kaly Xin 27 Aug '18

27 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 25 Aug '18

25 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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