Hey,

I’m hoping that as a project, we can start sending project updates on the ML on a regular basis (the last ones were posted on 3/11 and 4/6!).  With this in mind, I setup a quick rotation to help kick this off for the next few weeks, selecting current architecture committee members as initial volunteers.  Please check it out at [1], especially Jon, Wei, Xu and Samuel, whom I volunteered…

Last week there was a good amount of work on refactoring, cleanup, fixups, and (finally!) adding (optional) seccomp support in the guest!

Notable pull requests opened:

• Adding build support for Firecracker
• Kernel version bump

Notable pull requests merged:

• A few pull requests with code cleanup/refactoring from Samuel:
  • Simplify the hypervisor interface (runtime #1010)
  • Creation of a new internal types package (runtime #1096)
  • Sandbox simplification (runtime #1012)
• Add (configurable) seccomp profile support in the guest (runtime #689)
• Handful of fixes / enhancements for containerd v2 shim

Activity:

-Utilizing the latest 1.5.0-rc2 release, a quick demonstration of multiple hypervisor support was created and posted at [2]. 

-Some members of the community had a follow-up meeting with various open-source groups at AWS, highlighting the current status of Firecracker support in the latest 1.5 release candidate.  See [3] for email thread with notes/summary, and find the recording at [5].

-Bergwolf release 1.4.2 release of Kata (stable updates)

Looking forward:

-we are expecting the 1.5 release on 1/23

-Architecture committee meeting moved from Monday mornings at 7am PDT to Tuesdays at 8am PDT.  Please feel free to add items to the agenda, [4]. Currently we have discussions on the Denver PTG, CI, CFPs and an overview of work for Kata + Cilium. 

Thanks!

-Eric

[1] -  https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Weekly-Update-rotation

[2] - https://asciinema.org/a/219790

[3] - http://lists.katacontainers.io/pipermail/kata-dev/2019-January/000654.html

[4] - https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/katacontainers-2019-architecture-committee-mtgs

[5] - https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/arungupta/Meeting+Recording+-+Firecracker+and+Kata.mp4