Hi everyone,

Please see today’s meeting recording here: 
https://zoom.us/rec/share/I__kDmq4z6ioMrttGpoTOX26Eu_aW4N0mxQTK67XTqJYJB-DUDDbI-vu66CPRmjz.do9F4gs1E9Wek0fC

Thanks,

Sunny Cai
Open Infrastructure Foundation
sunny@openstack.org


On Mar 25, 2021, at 6:01 AM, Ariel Adam <aadam@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi everyone.
Following is today's meeting summary:

Use case #1: K8S CI/CD pipeline with kata containers

  • The team is still working to define the goal and scope.
  • We should have updates for the next meeting 

Use case #2: Confidential computing 

  • Samuel presented slides
  • We got good feedback from RH, IBM and Intel, still pending feedback from AMD
  • Discussing the topic of service mesh and encrypted containers - what happens when someone pushes a sidecar into the pod? What happens if that sidecar just prints all the memory to somewhere else :-)...
  • Idea would be to encrypt the side car as well, not guaranteeing what’s inside but yes regarding what you are getting
  • This does not violate our threat model which is focusing on knowing exactly what we are running
  • Christophe discussed the topic of the performance cost of using encrypted memory such as extra disk space - the user should decide if he wants to encrypted everything or only the top layers
  • Smauel pointed out that encrypting only the upper layers would not be strong enough - If your workload runs on a fedora and you only encrypted your workload, the fedora could have been hacked and added a bunch of backdoors 
  • For IBM the goal is to work with full encryption before talking about sharing
  • The SEV also has a number of issues regarding density as it is so maybe the additional sharing would not save much - max 512 VMs
  • Note that we are talking about SEV per pod (with a kata VM behind)
  • We discussed virtio-fs and DAX and the fact that it can’t work with encrypted memory since you don’t want anything to be shared 
  • We want to expand the problem statement and scope not only to fully encrypted images but also signed images 

Use case #3: Performance isolation (Tao) 

  • Working on best practices for the networking path
  • Later on will do the same for the IO path 
  • The question is what and how to do in the kata code (for now it’s hacks on the side) - they would like to see an open source implementation for this

Action items:

  • Samuel to share his slides
  • Tao will share a slide on the next meeting helping understand the interface the performance use case are focusing on 


Meeting notes:


Thanks. 
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