Hi Ariel and Samual,
 
My group at IBM (IBM Research - NY) is interested in joining the Confidential Computing use case. As a team, we've been exploring many of the issues discussed in the confidential computing RFC but in the context of full-featured VMs (w/ AMD SEV encryption). How theses ideas of trust and confidentiality can be applied to containers/pods is a very interesting problem.  
 
Looking forward to it.
 
Jim Cadden
jcadden@ibm.com
 
 
Hi everyone.
Going back to this thread, these are the current companies who are interested in joining the use cases proposed below:
 
CI/CD pipeline 
  • Intel
  • Red Hat
  • Atlassian 
  • IBM
Confidential computing
  • Intel 
  • Red Hat 
We'd really appreciate if you could review the proposal document and let us know if you would be interested in joining this effort as well. The more participants and companies we get engaged the better chance we have to push this initiative beyond a nice idea ;-).   
 
Thanks.  
 
 
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:06 PM Ariel Adam <aadam@redhat.com> wrote:
Hi everyone.
Samual and I would like to propose 2 use cases for the kata community to focus on in 2021 as a way to help the community create a roadmap and improve its overall presence. The use cases are K8S CI/CD pipeline and confidential computing.
 
In the document below we provide additional details on the overall proposal, use cases, the why, the what and how. Generally speaking we thought it would be more useful to present concrete use cases and a proposed process to the community (weekly calls, commitment from companies etc..) instead of just raising it as an open question and high level ideas. 
 
We do however want to emphasize that this is only a proposal and we see it as a beginning of a discussion we hope to have in the community regarding the plans for 2021.
 
Feel free to add comments/suggestions in the doc or reply on this mail thread with your comments/feedback. 
 
 
Thanks. 
 
Samual and Ariel.