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Thanks Eric! And I like the idea to have kata configuration in pod spec
annotations as well.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:46 AM Ernst, Eric <eric.ernst at intel.com> wrote:

> Hey virt-contaiNerds -
>
>
>
> I had the pleasure of helping review issues/PRs for Kata this week as part
> of the review rotation. Here are some highlights from the project over the
> past week:
>
>
>
> We had several project-infrastructure pull requests created and merged.
> Late last week, Salvador Fuentes
>
> identified that our burn-rate for CI resources has been increasing with
> the number of jobs and length of PR based CI jobs. This motivated several
> of us to stop and look at improvments that could be done. Initial changes
> include utilizing smaller container images for basic tests and reducing
> duplicated tests across various jobs. We plan to make further improvements
> by predicating larger test jobs by a passing static-check (ie, proper
> utilization of a pipeline), and better utilizing filters to not require
> full CI for non-code changes.
>
>
>
> While virtio-fs experimental support has been available with 1.8.0-alpha0,
> more extensive utilization of the feature is
>
> hamstrung by a lack of memory hotplug support. We're working with StefanH
> and DavidG to resolve this limitation. See
> https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/issues/1745
>
>
>
> We received initial PRs for adding support for the ACRN hypervisor. Review
> is ongoing.  See https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/1779
>
>
>
> A couple of stability-improvements for kata shimv2 were merged.
>
>
>
> There are several outstanding PRs which could use help moving forward, and
> I marked these with the label `needs-help`. If any sound interesting,
> please jump in! Examples include:
>
> - To avoid needing to do CPU or memory hotplug and still create an
> optimally sized VM, Manohar Castelino has been suggesting
>
> creating sizing annotations for Kata, and creating an example k8s
> admission controller which would set kata annotations in the PodSpec, which
> Kata would then consume. The initial PR has some suggestions on how to do
> this in a generic way, but is starting to go stale. We'd love to have help
> here. See https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/1695
>
> - An initial PR for moving hypervisor code from virtcontainers into a
> hypervisor pkg was provided by Samuel. This is a great code
>
> cleanup/refactoring opportunnity, and we could use help finishing this one
> up.  See https://github.com/kata-containers/runtime/pull/1208
>
>
>
> Next week, Peng Tao is listed as the release lead for stable releases
> <https://github.com/kata-containers/community/wiki/Release-Team-Rota>,
> which will include stable-1.6, stable-1.7 and 1.8.0-alpha branches.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
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Xu Wang
Senior Staff Engineer at AntFin
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